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A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Nevertheless, the term "Roman villa" generally covers buildings with the common features of being extra-urban (i.e. located outside urban settlements, unlike the domus which was inside ...
Triclinium: the Roman dining room. The area had three couches, klinai, on three sides of a low square table. The oecus was the principal hall or salon in a Roman house, which was used occasionally as a triclinium for banquets. Alae: the open rooms (or alcoves) on each side of the atrium. Ancestral death masks, or imagines, may have been ...
The English word manse originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is usually no longer self-sustaining in this way (compare a Roman or medieval villa). Manor comes from the same root—territorial holdings granted to a lord who would "remain" there. Following the fall of Rome, the ...
Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small English village. The complex was decorated with painted plaster, mosaics and there was ...
Scale model of a Roman villa rustica. Remains of villas of this type have been found in the vicinity of Valjevo, Serbia.. Villa rustica (transl. farmhouse or countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans [1] [2] to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas.
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.
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 Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili) is a monumental ancient Roman villa situated along the Via Appia Antica just beyond the fifth milestone from Rome, Italy. The remains of this villa suburbana are so impressive in size and area that before they were first excavated the site was called Roma Vecchia ("Old Rome") by the ...