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Impluvium in the center of the atrium of the House of Menander, Pompeii. Inspection (without excavation) of impluvia in Paestum, Pompeii and Rome indicated that the pavement surface in the impluvia was porous, or that the non-porous stone tiles were separated by gaps significant enough to allow a substantial quantity of water caught in the basin of the impluvium to filter through the cracks ...
Impluvium: an impluvium was basically a drained pool, a shallow rectangular sunken portion of the atrium to gather rainwater, which drained into an underground cistern. The impluvium was often lined with marble, and around which usually was a floor of small mosaic.
Tablelegs, puteal, and opus sectile impluvium, House of Publius Servilius Casca Longus . Roman townhouses rarely had windows, as they often had very little exterior wall. Where present, windows were placed above eye-level, and they were small [4] and contained clathri, window lattices. [4]
In a domus, a large house in ancient Roman architecture, the atrium was the open central court with enclosed rooms on all sides. In the middle of the atrium was the impluvium, a shallow pool sunken into the floor to catch rainwater from the roof. Some surviving examples are beautifully decorated.
Roman remains have also been found 3 ... The House of the Impluvium is an early 4th c. BC example of an Italic house with an atrium whose roof fed the impluvium ...
The elaborate mosaic found inside the ancient Roman house in Rome, Italy. Beyond the center of the empire, archaeologists in Toledo, Spain, reopened a two-floored Roman complex with several 1,800 ...
The ancient house boasted water features and stunning wall art, photos show. ... In a city already teeming with the bygone glory of the ancient Roman empire, archaeologists in Rome, Italy ...
Floor plan of the House of the Greek Epigrams Pompeii (V 1,18) Entering the home using its front entrance (18), a visitor could look across a wide atrium with impluvium slightly offset to the right, through a curtained tablinum to the red and white-columned peristyle where a mural on the rear wall depicted a bull attacked by a tiger.