. Architecture, classic and early Christian . with the upper parts oftlie build Jig; and one roof covered the whole. This kindoFTiouse was generally tenanted by the poorer class oftradesmen and artiflcers. The other kind of house, thedomus, Avas a detached mansion. The excavations atPompeii have done much to elucidate a number of pointsin connection with Eoman dwellings which had been thesubject of much discussion by scholars, but we must nottoo hastily assume that the Pompeian houses are the exactcounterpart of those of ancient Eome, as Pompeii was .whatIiray be called a Eomano-Greek city. Th
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . with the upper parts oftlie build Jig; and one roof covered the whole. This kindoFTiouse was generally tenanted by the poorer class oftradesmen and artiflcers. The other kind of house, thedomus, Avas a detached mansion. The excavations atPompeii have done much to elucidate a number of pointsin connection with Eoman dwellings which had been thesubject of much discussion by scholars, but we must nottoo hastily assume that the Pompeian houses are the exactcounterpart of those of ancient Eome, as Pompeii was .whatIiray be called a Eomano-Greek city. The general arrangeruents of a Eoman house were asfollows: next the street an open space was frequentlyleft, Avith poi^coes on each side of it provided Avithseats: this constituted the vestibule, and Avas entirelyoutside the house;* the entrance-door opened into a* This does not occur in the Pompeian houses. 176 CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE. narrow passage, called the ^);6/7i?/rwm, •nliich. led tothe atrium,* -which in the houses of Eepublicau Eome. IJG. HO.—GllOUXD-PLAN OP THE HuUSE OF PaNjA, PoilPEII. was the principal apartment, though atterwards_it servedas a sort of Avaiting-room for the clients and retainers Marked a, a, on the plaus. ROMAN. 177 of the house; it was an open court, roofed in on all thefour sides, but open to the sky in the centre. The simplestform was called the Tuscan atrium, where the roof wassimply a lean-to sloping towards the centre, the rafters beingsupported on beams, two of which rested on the walls of the
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