English Rooms
Latin Rooms
Objects
Uses
Pictures
100
Where is the impluvium?
under the compluvium (in the center of the atrium floor)
100
What is the garden?
hortus
100
The word domus means...?
house
100
What is the compluvium used for?
to let in air, light, and rain
100
By Szilas - Own work photo by Szilas in the Aquincum Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26742266
What room is this?
dining room/ triclinium
200
What is the tablinum?
the office/ study
200
What is the main room?
atrium
200
How many couches/benches were in the triclinium?
three
200
Which room was used for family events and greeting visitors?
atrium
200
By Lutz Hartmann - Own work (Original text: eigene Aufnahme), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23238893
What is this feature in the middle of the atrium?
impluvium
300
What is the triclinium?
dining room
300
What is the Latin word for office or the study?
tablinum
300
Where might you see a statue in a Roman domus?
atrium, lararium, hortus
300
I am a small area with places for people to worship. What am I?
lararium
300
By Carole Raddato - https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/48755129288/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91047753
In what space can this table be seen?
tablinum or at the end of the atrium
400
What are cubicula?
bedrooms
400
This is the Latin word for shallow rectangular pool used to collect rainwater
impluvium
400
What were their safes/strongboxes made of?
wood/metal
400
What was the triclinium used for?
where they eat
400
By Luigi Bazzani - https://pinterest.com, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81744678
What is this feature in the corner or side of the atrium?
lararium
500
What is the latrina?
toilet
500
the entrance/ doorway
ianua
500
What were Roman walls made with?
stone, brick, and/or plaster
500
Why was there a dog outside?
as a guard/security
500
CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=346254
In what part of the house would you find this?
on the atrium floor