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TETRASTYLE ATRIUM

House of the Silver Wedding Pompeii End of 2nd century B.C. This large atrium or central hall is from a house of the Samnite era. Four Corinthian columns support the open roof which is sloped inward to collect the rain below. The opening is called the compluvium. Behind the atrium is the peristyle....

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TABLINUM WALL PANEL

House of Sallust Pompeii Another wall panel in the first style. The tablinum, originally the main bedroom, is the central room at the far end of the atrium....

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BASILICA

Forum of Pompeii c. 120 B.C. These more massive columns are from the basilica, the most important public building in Pompeii. Constructed prior to the Roman period, the basilica had three aisles and five entrance doors onto the forum. In the rear we see a two-tiered colonnade which has columns in the Doric style on the bottom and slender Ionic col...

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IMPLUVIUM

House of the Silver Wedding Pompeii End of 2nd century B.C. The impluvium or shallow pool which caught the rain falling through the compluvium. The walls were altered and redecorated in a later period....

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VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES

Pompeii c. 200 B.C. The Villa of the Mysteries was a suburban house on the edge of Pompeii. Originally a simple farm building, around 200 B.C. it began to develop into a fifty-five room elegant patrician villa. This is a restored section at the entrance. In the foreground is the top of the arched basis villae or platform on which the villa is buil...

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CORNER ENTRANCE

Forum of Pompeii After 80 B.C. A corner entrance to the forum. The marble-covered arch was dedicated to Tiberius and the niches held statues of Nero and Drusus. The columns faced the macellum, the meat and fish market....

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IMPLUVIUM

House of the Faun Pompeii 2nd century B.C. The famous House of the Faun was named after this little dancing figure in the square impluvium. Nothing else of the atrium remains. A second atrium was adjacent to this one and beyond the two atriums were the columns of the peristyle....

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PRIMARY ATRIUM

Villa of the Mysteries Pompeii c. 70 B.C. The atrium is reached through a central axis from the entrance. Two corner doors lead to the tablinum. Beyond the main opening is the peristyle corridor....

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BUILDING OF EUMACHIA

Forum of Pompeii Under reconstruction in 79 Headquarters of the guild of fabric washers and dyers, known as fullones. Fabrics also were sold and stored here. To be located on the forum the guild had clearly achieved a prominence in city life. Here we see the brick columns faced with stucco. The doorway in the rear is decorated with spiral acanthus...

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ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF THE FAUN ATRIUM

from Professor Barbette Spaeth, Tulane University This artist's impression gives us an indication of the Atrium with the Impluvium and statue of Faun as it might have looked. The Peristyle is visible through in the rear....

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