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THE POMPEIAN HOUSE
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An interesting parallel presents itself in the arrangements of
a type of peasants’ house found in Lower Saxony. The main
entrance, as in the early Italic house, leads into a large and high
central room; at the sides of this and of the main entrance are
the living rooms and stalls. At the back the central room is
widened by two recesses corresponding with the alae; the hearth
stands against the rear wall. In the side walls, at the rear of
each recess, are a window and a door. The two windows admit
light to the part of the central room furthest from the entrance ;
the doors open into the farmyard and the garden.
The Italic house in the beginning was not a city residence
shut in by party walls, but the isolated habitation of a country-
man. The design of the alae, as of the recesses in the Low
Saxon farmhouse, was to furnish light to the atrium, which, as
we have seen, was completely covered by a roof, there being
only a small hole to let out the smoke. The large windows in
the rear of the alae of the house of Sallust may be looked upon
as a survival; but in city houses generally light could not be
taken in this way from the sides. After the compluvium had
come into general use, a conservative tradition still retained the
alae whenever possible, though they no longer answered their
original purpose. -
V. The Rooms about the Atrium. The Andron
In front there were rooms at either side of the entrance, ordi-
narily fitted up as shops and opening on the street, but sometimes
used as dining rooms or sleeping rooms, or for other domestic
purposes.
On each side of the atrium were two or three small sleeping
rooms; in narrow houses these, as well as one or both of the
alae, were occasionally omitted.
At the rear were one or two rooms of the same depth as the
tablinum, used in most cases as dining rooms. They frequently
had a single broad entrance on the side of the peristyle or the
garden (Fig. 129, 22), but were sometimes entered by a door
from the atrium or from one of the alae (Figs, no, 116). The
door on the side of the atrium seems generally to have been
253
An interesting parallel presents itself in the arrangements of
a type of peasants’ house found in Lower Saxony. The main
entrance, as in the early Italic house, leads into a large and high
central room; at the sides of this and of the main entrance are
the living rooms and stalls. At the back the central room is
widened by two recesses corresponding with the alae; the hearth
stands against the rear wall. In the side walls, at the rear of
each recess, are a window and a door. The two windows admit
light to the part of the central room furthest from the entrance ;
the doors open into the farmyard and the garden.
The Italic house in the beginning was not a city residence
shut in by party walls, but the isolated habitation of a country-
man. The design of the alae, as of the recesses in the Low
Saxon farmhouse, was to furnish light to the atrium, which, as
we have seen, was completely covered by a roof, there being
only a small hole to let out the smoke. The large windows in
the rear of the alae of the house of Sallust may be looked upon
as a survival; but in city houses generally light could not be
taken in this way from the sides. After the compluvium had
come into general use, a conservative tradition still retained the
alae whenever possible, though they no longer answered their
original purpose. -
V. The Rooms about the Atrium. The Andron
In front there were rooms at either side of the entrance, ordi-
narily fitted up as shops and opening on the street, but sometimes
used as dining rooms or sleeping rooms, or for other domestic
purposes.
On each side of the atrium were two or three small sleeping
rooms; in narrow houses these, as well as one or both of the
alae, were occasionally omitted.
At the rear were one or two rooms of the same depth as the
tablinum, used in most cases as dining rooms. They frequently
had a single broad entrance on the side of the peristyle or the
garden (Fig. 129, 22), but were sometimes entered by a door
from the atrium or from one of the alae (Figs, no, 116). The
door on the side of the atrium seems generally to have been