Transcript AEDĒS RŌMĀNAE (THE ROMAN HOUSE) PARTS OF A ROMAN HOUSE • ianua • ātrium door atrium, main hall and reception room, often containing the larārium (shrine to.

AEDĒS RŌMĀNAE
(THE ROMAN HOUSE)
PARTS OF A ROMAN HOUSE
• ianua
• ātrium
door
atrium, main hall and
reception room, often containing the
larārium (shrine to the
household gods)
• compluvium
opening in the roof through
which rain entered the ātrium
• impluvium
pool in the middle of the
ātrium to collect rainwater
• tablīnum
room between the ātrium and
peristȳlium used as a study
• peristȳlium
garden courtyard at rear of the
house (or just hortus, garden)
• trīclīnium
dining room (literally `three-couch
room’), which opened onto the garden
in the peristȳlium
• culīna
kitchen
FURTHER INFORMATION
• Houses like the one illustrated contained a
wealthy family with its slaves. Apart from the
main door, and perhaps a back entrance, it was
completely sealed off by its walls and light and
air was provided by the inner courtyards.
However, rooms at the front opening onto the
street were let out as shops.
• The poorer citizens of Rome lived in īnsulae
(literally `islands’) which were apartment blocks
up to 7-storeys high