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- Pavement outside has mosaic with 'HAVE' which means welcome
- Grand
- Doorway has 2 false pillars
- Architrave above
- Floor decorated with tragic masks mosaic
- 2 'lararia' or household shrines with columns like a mini temple |
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- Main atrium
- No columns supporting roof
- Public room - where clients/guests recieved
- Famous for its dancing faun statuette in the impluvium
- Impluvium decorated with coloured tiles |
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- Study: public, for recieving guests
- For household finance
- Floor mosaic is an optical illusion of 3D cubes |
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- Surrounded by peristyle made up of 28 Ionic columns
- Fountain
- Four triclinia (1 for each season) surrounded it, as well as the exedra |
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- Between small and large garden
- Alexander mosaic here
- For entertaining guests |
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- Smaller than Tuscan Atrium
- Roof supported by 4 columns
- Service rooms centred around this atrium |
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- Much bigger than first garden
- Surrounded by peristyle with a double colonnade of 40 Doric columns
- 2nd exit from house at back
- Lararium and small gardeners' rooms at back too. |
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- 4: one for each season
- Elaborate mosaics, e.g. the child Dionysus riding a lion |
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