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While there are excavations of homes in the city of Rome, none of them retained the original integrity of the structures. The homes of Rome are mostly bare foundations, converted churches or other community buildings. The most famous Roman domus is the House of Augustus. Little of the original architecture survives; only a single multi-level ...
An imperial estate (patrimonium or res privata) [1] in the Roman Empire it was the "personal property of members of the imperial family, as distinct from property belonging to the Roman state" (ager publicus). [2] On the Emperor's death, these properties passed to his successor, and not to his private heirs. [1]
Houses serve as a reflection of the social categories and the hierarchy that existed during the Roman Empire. [E 1] The Mediterranean-style house type is believed to have spread in Gaul in the mid-1st century. It is thought that most inhabitants' urban houses were located along streets and had shops on the façade facing these thoroughfares.
A third type of villa was a large commercial estate called latifundium which produced and exported agricultural produce; such villas might lack luxuries (e.g. Cato) but many were very sumptuous (e.g. Varro). The whole estate of a villa was also called a praedium, [17] fundus or sometimes, rus. A villa rustica had 2 or 3 parts: [18] [19]
Ancient Rome had elaborate and luxurious houses owned by the elite. The average house, or in cities apartment, of a commoner or plebeius did not contain many luxuries. The domus , or single-family residence, was only for the well-off in Rome, with most having a layout of the closed unit, consisting of one or two rooms.
Diagram of a typical Roman domus, with a taberna on each side of the entrance. A taberna (pl.: tabernae) was a type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.Originally meaning a single-room shop for the sale of goods and services, tabernae were often incorporated into domestic dwellings on the ground level flanking the fauces, the main entrance to a home, but with one side open to the street.
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Insulae housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome's massive population ranging from 800,000 to 1 million inhabitants in the early imperial period. [4] Residents of an insula included ordinary people of lower- or middle-class status (the plebeians ) and all but the wealthiest from the upper-middle class (the equites ).