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Reconstructed Triclinium (Roman dining room)
Display in the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, England |
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House of the Vettii
Atrium (top); garden (below)
Pompeii, Italy |
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Private domus garden with fountain aedicula and painted
scene
Pompeii, Italy
Think about the way in which the decoration functions in the garden. |
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Two-seater toilet in a private home
Bull Regia, Tunisia
Compare to the public toilet at Ostia (above under Public Works) |

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Atrium corinthicum and fountain
House of the Hunt
Private, underground 'summer' home
Bulla Regia, Tunisia
In the summer heat of North Africa, citizens of Bulla Regia moved to
these underground, cooler dwellings. |
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House of Sallust (1st style)
2nd century BC
Pompeii, Italy |

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Wall of Oecus (2nd style)
1st century AD
Boscoreale (near Pompeii), Italy
Museo Archeologico, Naples, Italy (INA) |

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Illusionistic Architecture in Relief (stucco) with Woman in Doorway
Pompeii, Italy
Museo Archeologico, Naples, Italy (inv. no. 9595) |

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Narcissus and Eros and Architectural Fantasy (4th style)
Pompeii, Italy
before 79 AD
Museo Archeologico, Naples, Italy (inv. no. 9027) |

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Lavish Architectural Fantasy (4th style)
Herculaneum, Italy
63-79 AD
Museo Archeologico, Naples, Italy (inv. no. 9731) |
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Fourth style painting
Pompeii, Italy |
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Two layers of floor mosaic
Roman villa at Fishbourne, Sussex, England
original mosaic dates to the lat quarter of the first century AD
overlaying, new mosaic dates to the early second century AD |