The Roman House
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Alae - “wings” from the atrium

Atrium - formal entrance hall

Cubiculum - bedroom

Culina - kitchen

Exedra - garden room

Peristylum - colonnaded garden

Taberna - shop

Tablinum - office

Triclinum - dining room

Vestibulum - entrance hall (leads to the atrium)

Impluvium - pool for collecting rainwater, in the atrium

Compluvium - opening in the roof to let rainwater into the impluvium

Copyright 2003 by Gathi Abraham and Mark Spreitzer