Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

430 DOMUS. DOMUS.
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illilll ll'A'"- "' —a house did not possess an hospitium, or rooms Q
expressly for the reception of guests, they appear to have been lodged in rooms attached to
the atrium. [HosrPITUuM.] 4. A small room with
a stair-case leading up to the upper rooms. 5.
Alae. 6. The tablinum. 7. The fauces. 8. Peristyle, with Doric columns and garden in the centre.
The large room on the right of the peristyle is the
triclinium; beside it is the kitchen; and the
smaller apartments are cubicula and other rooms
for the use of the family. s
The next woodcut contatins the ground-plan of
an insula, which was properly a house not joined
to the neighbouring houses by a common wall.
(Festus, s. v.) An insula, however, generally the street. N. Culina. H. Servants' hall, with
contained several separate houses, or at least a back door to the street. P. Portico of two stories,
separate apartments or shops, which were let to which proves that the house had an upper floor.
different families; and hence the term domus The site of the staircase, however, is unknown,
under the emperors appears to be applied to the though it is thought there is some indication of
house where oe family lived, whether it were an one in the passage, M. Q. The garden. R. Reserinsula or not, and insula to any hired lodgings. voir for supplying a tank, S.
This insula contains a house, surrounded by shops, The preceding rooms belonged exclusively to
which belonged to the owner and were let out by Pansa's house; but there were a good many aparthinl. The house itself, which is usually called the ments besides in the insula, which were not in his
house of Pansa, evidently belonged to one of the occupation. a. Six shops let out to tenants. Those
principal men of Pompeii. Including the garden, on the right and left hand corners were bakers'
which is a third of the whole length, it is about shops, which contained mills, ovens, &c. at b. The
300 feet long and 100 wide. one on the right appears to have been a large
A. Ostium, or entrance-hall, paved with mosaic, establishment, as it contains many rooms. c. Two
B. Tuscan atrium. I. Impluvium. C. Chambers houses of a very mean class, having formerly an
on each side of the atrium, probably for the recep- upper story. On the other side are two houses
tion of guests. D. Ala. E. Tablinum, which is much ilarger, d.
open to the peristyle, so that the whole length of Having given a general description of the rooms
the house could be seen at once; ut as there is of a Roman house ould be seen at once; bremai is to speak of the
passage (fauces), F, beside it, the tablinum might (1) floors, (2) walls, (3) ceilings, (4) windows, and
probably be closed at the pleasure of the owner. (5) the mode of warming the rooms. For the doors
C. Chambers by the fauces and tablinum, of which see JANuTA.
the use is uncertain. G. Peristyle. D. Ala to (1.) The floor (solum) of a room was seldom
the peristyle. C. Cubicula by the side of the boarded, though though this appears to have been sorneperistyle. K. Triclinium. L. Oecus, and by its times done (strata solo tabotlata, Stat. Sile. i. 5.57).
side there is a passage leading from the peristyle It was generally covered with stone or marble, or
to the garden. o'. Back door (posteiCmn ostiz.l) to mosaics. The common floors were paved with