. Architecture, classic and early Christian . 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. Fig. 141.—Gkounu-pian of the IIocse of the Tragic Poet, T
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . 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. Fig. 141.—Gkounu-pian of the IIocse of the Tragic Poet, ToMrEii. atriura, and had two other cross-beams trimmed into ^^ning^ was called the impluvium, and-imme-jiiately under it a tank, called the compluvium, was formed in the pavement to collect^tEe rain-water (Fig. 142). When the atrium became larger, and the roof hud to be K 178 CLASSIC ARCHITECTUllE. supported by columns, it was called a ccuxedinm* At tlieend of this apartment were three others, open in front, the
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