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an
and
Fig. 119. ■—Plan of a din-
ing room with an ante-
room containing
altar for libations.
A. Room for the table
couches.
B. Anteroom with altar.
end of the upper one. In the middle stands the base of the
table, also of masonry ; the top is rarely preserved. Near by is
a little altar for the offerings made in connection with each
meal. The appearance of such a triclinium may be inferred
from that of the triclinium funebre shown in Fig. 235, which
has a square table and round altar.
In many gardens we find about the triclinium the remains of
four or six columns. These supported a frame of timber or
lattice-work, upon which vines were trained,
making a shady bower, as in the garden of
the tavern in the first Region, referred to
below (p. 396).
The couches were ordinarily not provided
with backs, but the outer ends of the upper
and lower couches sometimes had a frame
to hold the cushions, as indicated in Fig. 118
and shown more clearly in our restoration,
Fig. 180. In the dining rooms small mov-
able altars must have been used for the offer-
ings, such as those of terra cotta or bronze not infrequently met
with in the course of excavation. A fixed altar has been found
in only one instance, in a small dining room in the eighth Region
(VIII. v-vi. 16). Here, as our plan (Fig. 119) shows, the front
of the apartment is set off as an anteroom, and in this was placed
an altar of tufa.
In accordance with an ancient custom the children, even those
of the imperial family, sat on low stools at a table of their own
on the open side of the large table. In an open-air triclinium in
the ninth Region (IX. v. 11) the children’s seat is preserved, a
low bench of masonry about five feet long connected with the
projecting arm of the lower couch.
The inner-part of the dining room, designed for the table and
-couches, was often distinguished from the free space in the
same way that the place for the bed was indicated in bedrooms,
sometimes by a difference in the design of the mosaic floor, more
frequently by the division of the wall decoration and the arrange-
ment of the ceiling. In the third and fourth decorative styles
the division is less plainly marked than in the second; but often
POMPEII
an
and
Fig. 119. ■—Plan of a din-
ing room with an ante-
room containing
altar for libations.
A. Room for the table
couches.
B. Anteroom with altar.
end of the upper one. In the middle stands the base of the
table, also of masonry ; the top is rarely preserved. Near by is
a little altar for the offerings made in connection with each
meal. The appearance of such a triclinium may be inferred
from that of the triclinium funebre shown in Fig. 235, which
has a square table and round altar.
In many gardens we find about the triclinium the remains of
four or six columns. These supported a frame of timber or
lattice-work, upon which vines were trained,
making a shady bower, as in the garden of
the tavern in the first Region, referred to
below (p. 396).
The couches were ordinarily not provided
with backs, but the outer ends of the upper
and lower couches sometimes had a frame
to hold the cushions, as indicated in Fig. 118
and shown more clearly in our restoration,
Fig. 180. In the dining rooms small mov-
able altars must have been used for the offer-
ings, such as those of terra cotta or bronze not infrequently met
with in the course of excavation. A fixed altar has been found
in only one instance, in a small dining room in the eighth Region
(VIII. v-vi. 16). Here, as our plan (Fig. 119) shows, the front
of the apartment is set off as an anteroom, and in this was placed
an altar of tufa.
In accordance with an ancient custom the children, even those
of the imperial family, sat on low stools at a table of their own
on the open side of the large table. In an open-air triclinium in
the ninth Region (IX. v. 11) the children’s seat is preserved, a
low bench of masonry about five feet long connected with the
projecting arm of the lower couch.
The inner-part of the dining room, designed for the table and
-couches, was often distinguished from the free space in the
same way that the place for the bed was indicated in bedrooms,
sometimes by a difference in the design of the mosaic floor, more
frequently by the division of the wall decoration and the arrange-
ment of the ceiling. In the third and fourth decorative styles
the division is less plainly marked than in the second; but often