ROMAN ARCHITECTURE—BAGGALLAY. 663 
same things are true, not only of buildings in the town, but also in 
the country, except that in town the atriums are usually next the 
gates, but in the country and suburbs uniformly the peristyles, then 
at once paved atriums 
having porticos around 
and looking on_ the 
palaestras and walks.” ¢ 
The object of the coun- 
try arrangement was 
obviously to get this 
view of the grounds 
from the common dwell- 
ing room of the house. 
It would seem not to 
have held at a later 
date in the larger villas 
of the Imperial period, 
when atrium had _be- 
come less a dwelling 
room than an entrance 
hall, for Pliny says that ’ 
in his Laurentine villa == ooh 
the atrium was the first eae ae 
apartment entered. In 
the suburban villa at 
Pompei, called the villa 
of Diomed (fig. 1), the 
description of Vitruvius 
holds good; for the long 
apartment, called the 
gallery, which looked 
onto the terrace round 
the palaestra and to 
the country beyond, no Fig. 1.—Plan of the villa of Diomed. (From August 
enibin a 1 : f f Mau’s Pompeii.) 1. Steps. 38. Peristyle. 8. Tablinum. 
ou served most o 10. Exedra. 12. Dining room. 14. Sleeping room, 
the purposes of the with anteroom (13). 15. Passage leading to a garden 
t : : t 1 at the level of the street. 17. Small court with hearth 
atrium In a town house, (e) and swimming bath (¢). 18. Storeroom. 19-21. 
though its form differs Bath. (19. Apodyterium. 20. Tepidarium. 21. Cal- 
ntic itv, i tl f tl : darium.) 22. Kitchen. 26. Gallery, facing a terrace 
e rely oth trom those (28) over the front rooms of the lower part. e,f,9,h. 
described by Vitruvius Colonnade inclosing a large garden. i, k, 1, m. Rooms. 
elsewhere and from ™ "8! Pond. &. Arbor. 
others in Pompeii. Unfortunately there are no means of dating the 
building. For a wealthy man’s house it is not large, and the decora- 
tion, though it is described as tasteful, was inferior to that of many 
2468 PH KH - 
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ONE WHS 1} Gh 
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