Plan of the House of the Tragic Poet at Pompeii

• 1. Ostium or fauces into the house
• 2. Atrium
• 3. Chambers for family and guests
• 4. Landing and stairs up
• 5. Alae
• 6. Tablinum
• 7. Fauces into garden
• 8. Peristyle
• 9. Triclinium
• 10. Kitchen
• 11. Cubicula

The illustration is from William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (New York, Harper, 1874).

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