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Identifier: lifeinromanworld00tuck (find matches)
Title: Life in the Roman world of Nero and St. Paul
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George), 1859-1946
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fig. 33. — Peristyle with Garden and al fresco Dining-Table. is commonly an unroofed, cjuadrangular court sur-rounded by a roofed colonnade, and thence known asthe peristyle. Or the colonnade may extend onlyround three sides, the back being free to the garden.In the uncovered space lying between the rows ofpillars there are ornamental shrubs and flowers. THE ROMAN TOWN HOUSE 155 marble tables, a cistern of water containing goldfish, afountain, and marble basins into which fresh water isspouted from bronze or marble statuettes, from figuresof animals, or from masks. Under the colonnade aremarble floors or other more or less rich pavements,
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Fig. 34. — Peristyle in House of the Vettii. (Present state.) decorated walls, and such works of art as the ownermost affects. When it seems desirable for shade and coolness,coloured curtains or awnings may be suspendedbetween the columns, so that one can sit or walk withcomfort under the cloistered portion. At the sidesare apartments for different purposes. At the far end,or elsewhere, there is regularly the largest dining-room,often with mosaic floor and generally with picturedwalls. Whereabouts in the house the family or an 156 LIFE IN THE ROMAN WORLD ch.^. invited party should dine would depend partly on thenumber to be present, partly on the season of theyear, and partly on some passing inclination. Ahouse of an)^ pretensions would possess several roomsused, or capable of being used, for this purpose.Some dining-rooms had what we should call Frenchwindows on three sides, permitting the diners toenjoy the view of the garden or the shrubbery outside.Other large and air\^ apartmen

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