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Identifier: romancitiesinita00frot (find matches)
Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ ^ o v. o ^^ f a 2 X a: i f^ Plate XXII PUBLIC LK.. I. / ROMAN CITIES 125 the fourtli century B.C. In this type the centralopening for the admission of light was too smallto be satisfactory and the next step was tomodify the arrangement so that it could be verymuch enlarged and thrown entirely open, theroof slant being reversed so as to carry the waterin instead of away and to catch it in an impluvium or basin in the center of this inner court.This open atrium was called Tiiscanicum, by theRomans, who adopted it from the Etruscans. Asection of such an atrium is show^n in plate xxiii.I also agree with those who believe that theEtruscans w^ent a step farther in the develop-ment of the atrium and used rows of columns toenlarge it on the ground floor, in the form of asmall cloister, which went bv the name of atriumtetrasiylum if there were only four columns, oneat each corner, or atrium corinthium if therewere more. There probably elapsed some timebefore the simple tetrastyle type was de

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