. Pompeii : its life and art . small doorbeing used at other times. The place for the bed was sometimes indicated in the planof the room. In a bedroom of the house of the Centaur, ofwhich an end view is given in Fig. 117, a narrow alcove wasmade for the bed at the left side; the floor of the alcove isslightly raised, and the ceiling, as often, is in the form of avault, while the ceiling of the room is higher and only slightlyarched. A similar arrangement is found in several other rooms 256 POMPEII decorated in the first style. In the house of Apollo there is asleeping room with alcoves for two
. Pompeii : its life and art . small doorbeing used at other times. The place for the bed was sometimes indicated in the planof the room. In a bedroom of the house of the Centaur, ofwhich an end view is given in Fig. 117, a narrow alcove wasmade for the bed at the left side; the floor of the alcove isslightly raised, and the ceiling, as often, is in the form of avault, while the ceiling of the room is higher and only slightlyarched. A similar arrangement is found in several other rooms 256 POMPEII decorated in the first style. In the house of Apollo there is asleeping room with alcoves for two beds. In bedrooms with a mosaic floor the place for the bed isordinarily white, being separated from the rest of the room bya stripe suggestive of a threshold. A similar division is oftenindicated in the wall decoration, particularly that of the secondstyle; the part designated for the bed is set off by pilasters onthe end walls, and differently treated both in respect to thedecorative design and in the arrangement of Fig. 117. — End of a bedroom in the house of the Centaur, decorated in the first the left, alcove for the bed; above, two windows. VIII. Dining Rooms As long as it was customary to sit at meals any fair-sizedapartment could be used as a dining room. When the earlyItalic house was extended by the addition of a peristyle, and the?Greek custom of reclining at table was introduced, it becamenecessary to provide a special apartment, and the Greek namefor such a room with the three couches, triclinium, came intouse. For convenience in serving, the length of a dining room, THE POMPEIAX HOUSE 25 A B o c i 1 C 3 1 1 I 4 5 m 1 according to Vitruvius, should be twice the width. At Pom-peii, however, the dimensions are less generous; with an av-erage width of 12 or 13 feet the length rarely exceeds 20feet. In many cases one end of the room opened on theperistyle, but could be closed by means of broad doors orshutters. The plan of a typical dining room is
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