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Mau, August
Pompeii: its life and art — New York, London: The MacMillan Company, 1899

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THE POMPEIAN HOUSE

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Period the colonnade was frequently in two stories, on all four
sides or on the front alone. Fragments of columns belonging
to the second story have been found in many houses, but in
only one instance, that of the house of the Centenary, are they
of such a character as to enable us to make an accurate restora-
tion ; here the double series of columns extended only across
the front.
A separate entrance, postiaim (Fig. no), usually connected
the peristyle with a side street. At the rear there was often a
broad, deep recess, excdra, corresponding with the tablinum.
The location of the other rooms in this part of the house is
determined by so many conditions, and manifests so great a
diversity that it may be spoken of more conveniently in con-
nection with their use.

VII. Sleeping Rooms
The small, high rooms about the atrium were in the earlier
times used as bedrooms; and such they remained in some
houses, as that of the Faun, down to the destruction of the
city.
The sleeping rooms about the peristyle were much lower, and
the front opened by means of a broad door in its whole, or
almost its whole, width upon the colonnade. These rooms
could frequently be entered also through a small side door
from a dining room, or a narrow recess opening on the peristyle
(Fig. 141, x). The design of the arrangement is obvious. In
summer the inconvenient large door could be left open day and
night, a curtain being stretched across the space ; in winter it
would be opened only for airing and cleaning, the small door
being used at other times.
The place for the bed was sometimes indicated in the plan
of the room. In a bedroom of the house of the Centaur, of
which an end view is given in Fig. 117, a narrow alcove was
made for the bed at the left side; the floor of the alcove is
slightly raised, and the ceiling, as often, is in the form of a
vault, while the ceiling of the room is higher and only slightly
arched. A similar arrangement is found in several other rooms
 
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