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POMPEII
made when the house was built; if the owner did not wish to
use it, it was walled up and treated as a blind door, an orna-
ment of the atrium.
The rooms about the atrium in the pre-Roman period were
made high, those in front and at the sides often measuring fifteen
feet to the edge of the ceiling, which had the form of a groined
vault. The rear rooms were still higher, the crown of the vaults
being as far above the floor as the flat ceiling of the tablinum.
A corresponding height was given to the doors; those in the
house of the Faun measure nearly fourteen feet. The upper
part of the doorway was doubtless pierced for the admission of
light in the manner indicated by wall paintings, and shown in
our restoration of one side of the atrium in the house of Sallust
(Figs. 250, 251).
The andron was a passage at the right or the left of the tab-
linum, connecting the atrium with the peristyle (Figs, no, 116).
The name was used originally to designate an apartment in the
Greek house, but was applied by the Romans to a corridor. In
modern times the passage has often been erroneously called
fauces.
The andron is lacking only in small houses, or in those in
which a different connection is made between the front and
rear portions by means of a second atrium, or other rooms.
VI. Garden, Peristyle, and Rooms about the Peristyle
A few Pompeian houses, like those of the olden time, are
without a peristyle, having a garden at the rear. In such cases
there is a colonnade at the back of the house, facing the gar-
den ; this is the arrangement in the houses of the Surgeon, of
Sallust, and of Epidius Rufus. In the large house of Pansa
(Fig. 172), we find both a peristyle and a garden, the latter
being at the rear of the peristyle; and in many houses a small
garden was placed wherever available space could be found.
The peristyle is a garden enclosed by a colonnade, or having
a colonnade on two or three sides. When this was higher on
the north side than on the other three, as in the house of the
Silver Wedding, the peristyle was called Rhodian. In the Tufa
POMPEII
made when the house was built; if the owner did not wish to
use it, it was walled up and treated as a blind door, an orna-
ment of the atrium.
The rooms about the atrium in the pre-Roman period were
made high, those in front and at the sides often measuring fifteen
feet to the edge of the ceiling, which had the form of a groined
vault. The rear rooms were still higher, the crown of the vaults
being as far above the floor as the flat ceiling of the tablinum.
A corresponding height was given to the doors; those in the
house of the Faun measure nearly fourteen feet. The upper
part of the doorway was doubtless pierced for the admission of
light in the manner indicated by wall paintings, and shown in
our restoration of one side of the atrium in the house of Sallust
(Figs. 250, 251).
The andron was a passage at the right or the left of the tab-
linum, connecting the atrium with the peristyle (Figs, no, 116).
The name was used originally to designate an apartment in the
Greek house, but was applied by the Romans to a corridor. In
modern times the passage has often been erroneously called
fauces.
The andron is lacking only in small houses, or in those in
which a different connection is made between the front and
rear portions by means of a second atrium, or other rooms.
VI. Garden, Peristyle, and Rooms about the Peristyle
A few Pompeian houses, like those of the olden time, are
without a peristyle, having a garden at the rear. In such cases
there is a colonnade at the back of the house, facing the gar-
den ; this is the arrangement in the houses of the Surgeon, of
Sallust, and of Epidius Rufus. In the large house of Pansa
(Fig. 172), we find both a peristyle and a garden, the latter
being at the rear of the peristyle; and in many houses a small
garden was placed wherever available space could be found.
The peristyle is a garden enclosed by a colonnade, or having
a colonnade on two or three sides. When this was higher on
the north side than on the other three, as in the house of the
Silver Wedding, the peristyle was called Rhodian. In the Tufa