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Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, with reconstructed furniture [1] The bedroom without furniture, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A cubiculum (pl.: cubicula) was a private room in a domus, an ancient Roman house occupied by a
The House of the Prince of Naples [1] [2] [3] is a Roman domus (townhouse) located in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near Naples, Italy.The structure is so named because the Prince and Princess of Naples attended a ceremonial excavation of selected rooms there in 1898.
The floor mosaics of the cubiculum often marked out a rectangle where the bed should be placed. Culina : the kitchen in a Roman house. The culina was dark, and the smoke from the cooking fires filled the room as the best ventilation available in Roman times was a hole in the ceiling (the domestic chimney would not be invented until the 12th ...
Villa Boscoreale is a name given to any of several Roman villas discovered in the district of Boscoreale, [1] Italy. They were all buried and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, along with Pompeii and Herculaneum. [2]
Plan of the Villa Poppaea: 01-Atrium, 03-Caldarium, 04-Tepidarium, 06-Triclinium, 07-Cubiculum, 10-Peristyle, 12-Oecus, 13-Piscina, 15-Viridarium, 20-Latrine, 21-Peristyle, 22-Lararium, 24-Garden Swimming pool. This grandiose maritime villa was characterised by “rituals of reception and leisure” through both its physical space and its ...
The Red Room, cubiculum 16, like its eastern neighbor the Black Room, had a southern entryway that led to the southern terrace of the villa. [7] Also similar to its neighbor, the walls of the Red Room were decorated with aedicula and sacro-idyllic landscapes.
Similarly, historically the household slept in the cubicles opening off the atrium, but as townhouses became deeper family tended to live deeper in the house, and these became guest rooms (unless the house has dedicated guest rooms, a hospitium). [4] Slaves and servants might sleep in the entrance to their master's cubiculum.
The House of Sallust (also known in earlier excavation reports as the House of Actaeon) was an elite residence in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and among the most sumptuous of the city. The oldest parts of the house have been dated to the 4th century BCE, but the main expansions were built in the 2nd century BCE during the Roman period.