House & Furniture
Cards (90)
- domus : single-household residence
- insulae : apartment buildings
- atrium : atrium, reception hall
- lares : household gods
- tablinum : study, office
- compluvium : hole in the roof
- impluvium : basin in the floor for collecting rain water
- alae : alcoves on either side of the atrium
- peristylum : garden court
- ostium : entrance (doorway + door)
- fores : double doors
- culina : kitchen
- latrina : bathroom
- triclinium : dining room
- cubiculum : bedroom
- solum : floor
- tectum : roof
- fenestra : window
- lectus : couch
- sella : stool
- mensa : table
- lucerna : lamp
- villa rustica : built around a courtyard/garden; colonnaded portico on all sides
- villa suburbana : common; around the outskirts of towns so that nearby land could be farmed
- villa martimae : luxurious seaside retreat for the wealthy/emperors
- vitruvius : architect and engineer of the time of caesar and augustus
- arca : strong box
- house shapes : round / oval / rectangular
- vestibulum : courtyard (separated city street from atrium, where clients gathered)
- launa : outer door
- limen : threshold
- ostiarius/ianitor : doorkeeper
- velum : curtain
- atrium tuscanicum : roof was formed by two pairs of beams crossing each other at right angles
- atrium tetrastylon : beams were supported at their intersections by pillars
- atrium corinthium : like atrium tetrastylon but had more than four pillars
- atrium displuviatum : roof sloped toward outer walls (water was carried off by gutters on the outside)
- atrium testudinatum : atrium without impluvium or compluvium
- imagines : wax busts of ancestors
- cubicula diurna : bedrooms designated for siestas