190 POMPEIANA.

PLATE XXXVII.

An attempt to explain the general arrangement of
the cava?dium in Pansa's house, with the nature
of its ceiling, impluvium, and compluvium.
By a reference to the plan it will be seen that the
two first doors on each side are to the rooms
marked thereon (7). Next come the alze. The
centre is occupied by the tablinum, having on
the right the fauces, or passage through to the
inner court. On the left the pinacotheca; and
through this latter are seen the doors to the rooms
(16, 17). Beyond the tablinum are the columns
of the peristyle, and the basin occupying its
centre. In the distance the triclinium and per-
gula, opening upon the garden.
In warm weather the house was perhaps thus open
to view through its whole' extent; but the
tablinum was sometimes separated from the
peristyle by a window; and, when the aulseum
was drawn or let down, formed a separate apart-
ment \
The cavzedium seems to have been lighted at night

1 In the Bacckides of Plautus, the old man, opening the street door,
sees his son feasting in the triclinium.