Introduction

The Internet Resources

Roman House overviews

• Overall view of Roman House - Model of a Roman villa; good visuals but descriptions are not in English.

• Plan (Drawing) of a Roman House

• Marble plan of Roman Houses - Ancient 'map' in marble showing three houses in Rome. Primary source material.

• Floor Plan of the House of Sallust - Very large house in Pompeii.

• Wall Painting - House of M. Lucretius Fronto

• Wall Painting of seaside Villas - House of M. Lucretius Fronto

• Wall Painting of seaside villa 2 - House of Fronto

• Model of Atrium - House of Papyri as copied by the Getty Museum

• Atrium/Tablinum - Getty Museum Reconstruction

• Images of various rooms, etc. - Excellent source of images for housing pix.

• Roof, key and lock, hypocaust

• Concise description of houses

• Insula Model

Atrium and Lararium

• Atrium with compluvium and impluvium - House of the Mosaic atrium from Herculaneum

• Atrium - HOuse of L. Gaius Secundus, Pompeii

• Outdoor Lararium

• Description of Lararium

• Lararium of Senex Caecilius

• Statuette of a Lar

• Lararium niche at Ostia

• Compluvium - Note the animal 'drains'. Made of clay with spouts for flow of water into the impluvium

• Compluvium tile with animal head waterspout

• Compluvium - Also links to other information about houses.

Culina, Latrina, Taberna

• Taberna - Visual of a shop along a Pompeiian street.

• Latrina - Found in Dougga, North Africa

• Water channels of a latrina - N.B. Channel for waste and channel for rinsing out your sponge.

• Model of Roman culina

Peristyle and Triclinium

• Peristyle Model - From Getty Museum; copy from House of the Papyri

• Large Peristyle - Getty Museum.

• Peristyle/side view - Getty Museum

• Peristyle Model - From Getty Museum; copy from House of the Papyri

• Large Peristyle - Getty Museum.

• Peristyle/side view - Getty Museum

• Triclinium

• Peristyle

Cubiculum and Tablinum

• Tablinum - Looking in from Atrium

• Reconstructed Tablinum - From the Getty Museum.