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POMPEII
decorated in the first style. In the house of Apollo there is a
sleeping room with alcoves for two beds.
In bedrooms with a mosaic floor the place for the bed is
ordinarily white, being separated from the rest of the room by
a stripe suggestive of a threshold. A similar division is often
indicated in the wall decoration, particularly that of the second
style; the part designated for the bed is set off by pilasters on
the end walls, and differently treated both in respect to the
decorative design and in the arrangement of colors.
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Fig. 117. — End of a bedroom in the house of the Centaur, decorated in the first style.
At the left, alcove for the bed; above, two windows.
VIII. Dining Rooms
As long as it was customary to sit at meals any fair-sized
apartment could be used as a dining room. When the early
Italic house was extended by the addition of a peristyle, and the
Greek custom of reclining at table was introduced, it became
necessary to provide a special apartment, and the Greek name
for such a room with the three couches, tricliniiim, came into
use. For convenience in serving, the length of a dining room,
POMPEII
decorated in the first style. In the house of Apollo there is a
sleeping room with alcoves for two beds.
In bedrooms with a mosaic floor the place for the bed is
ordinarily white, being separated from the rest of the room by
a stripe suggestive of a threshold. A similar division is often
indicated in the wall decoration, particularly that of the second
style; the part designated for the bed is set off by pilasters on
the end walls, and differently treated both in respect to the
decorative design and in the arrangement of colors.
0 / 2
Lr 1 ! , I , I 1 1 I_I
/atoiotoso
Fig. 117. — End of a bedroom in the house of the Centaur, decorated in the first style.
At the left, alcove for the bed; above, two windows.
VIII. Dining Rooms
As long as it was customary to sit at meals any fair-sized
apartment could be used as a dining room. When the early
Italic house was extended by the addition of a peristyle, and the
Greek custom of reclining at table was introduced, it became
necessary to provide a special apartment, and the Greek name
for such a room with the three couches, tricliniiim, came into
use. For convenience in serving, the length of a dining room,