Welcome to my Double Atrium & CourtyardHere I conduct my social activities at AncientWorlds and at Rome. You can leave me a message on my personal message board or take a look at my friends list. Soon you will be able to check my calendar of events as well. My domus has a double atrium. The floors are covered with mosaics and the walls are decorated with paintings of theatrical scenes. The background colour of right atrium is black, and the background colour of the left atrium (the Toscan atrium) is white. The walls of the tablinium are decorated with yellow wood panelling with the emblems of Juno, Apollo and Minerva.
Close to the pool in the courtyard on the north side, which is enclosed by two rows of columns, is a copy of the beautiful "Satyr with goatskin". In the background of the courtyard is a beautiful nymph grotto with a mosaic fountain covered with images of birds, pools and animals. Mercurius
(Pompeius meets Mercurius)One evening a naked man came to my gate
with his cloak over his arm, sandals on his feet,
a staff in his hand, and a helmet on his head.
I said to him: Come in, if you want to!
He came and sat down at the hearth.
I asked him: "What are your name!"
He looked at the gods on my emblems,
I said: "You are as one of them!"
"Yes," he said: "I am Mercurius." He stole the herd of his brother Apollo,
And he invented the glow.
He is warm with the cloak on his arm.
He brings us all warmth,
And now he is sitting by my hearth. |
A painting in the Double Atrium
with blue background color.A Description of a Typical Domus PompeiianaTabernae and OfficinaeTabernae and officinae are shops and small workshops in front of the house. The ordinary types are caupona - public-houses; thermopolium - sale of warm drinks; pistrinum - mill or bakery; fullonica - wash room, dye-works; and atriensis - the caretaker and gatekeeper of the domus. AtriumThe atrium consists of an implivium - a vessel for the collection of rain water. Beside the vessel is the holy table and the cartibulum - an urn.
The complivium is an opening in the roof for to let in the daylight and let the rain pour down in implivium.
The adjoining rooms are the cubicula - resting room and the ala - room for everyday use. ViridariumAn andron - corridor is the connection between the atrium and the veridarium - a garden with fountains, statues and the hortus - the kitchen garden. Round the veridarium is a perystilium.
The adjoining rooms to the veridarium is the culina - kitchen, the lararium for lari - the family gods who protect the the home, the balneum - bathrooms with water of different temperatures, and the gynaeceum - the women's departement.
The PerystiliumThe house has an enormous garden. It is decorated with a canal, small waterfalls, fishes, small temples, nymph grottos, statues of gods and an outdoor dining room.
Triclina for different seasons or oeci, exedrea and other luxorious rooms are round this greater perystilium. 
You're Lydon.
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