24 THE ATRIUM VESTA. 
four smaller rooms.’ The walls of the newer rooms were not at right angles 
to the older wall in their rear, to which they were attached; this caused a 
slight irregularity in the shape of the larger rooms at either end. The first 
room on the north? remained unchanged, except that its length was some- 
what lessened by the change in position of the front wall. The room adjoin- 
ing it,® which is 8.30 meters long, was on the contrary widened to 7.30 
meters. The width of the corresponding room on the east can not now be ° 
determined. The corridor by which these rooms were united is 3 meters 
in width. The small rooms* which open upon it are only 4.59 meters 
long. The doors leading from the corridor into the smaller rooms, as. 
well as those by which the rooms were united to the colonnade outside, 
can not be restored, since the walls are destroyed almost to the founda- 
tions. No change took place in the rooms situated beyond the court and 
opening upon the garden.° The group of rooms on the west and south- 
west® is much larger than that just described. On the south, next to the ala 
on the west of the tablinum, is a room’ 4.14 meters wide, which is to be con- 
nected rather with the older rooms adjoining it on the east than with the 
newer ones on the west. Beyond this room, at the southwest corner of the 
Atrium, are a number of rooms, which, though connected structurally with 
the rest of the building, seem from their position and arrangement to form 
a distinct group by themselves. The center of this group was a large room,® 
at the west end of which was an apse. On the south were three smaller 
rooms,’ a little higher in level than the larger one and connected with it 
by wide arches. Next to these rooms on the north is a stairway,” which gave 
direct access to them from the clivus, or ramp, leading to the Palatine. 
Beyond the stairs is a narrow corridor," resembling that on the north, out of 
which opened a room” 5.30 meters long and 4.71 wide. At the northern 
end of the corridor is a larger room® which may have opened directly upon 
the colonnade.* It is uncertain whether the rooms just mentioned formed 
a part of the group of which the large room was the center or were con- 
nected with the Atrium proper. On the west of these rooms and wholly 
distinct from them is a long hall,” divided into three closely connected rooms 
by low archways.’© At the further end of this hall is a vaulted storeroom,”” 
1 Plan B, 4-6 and plate v, fig. 2. 
2 Plan B,1. 
3 Plan B, 2. 
4Plan B, 4-6. Thése rooms are 5.13, 2.95 and 
3.38 meters wide. 
5 Plan B, 8-9. The wall in front of the new rooms 
is not continued beyond the division wall 
between rooms 7 and 8, which is of the pre- 
ceding period. 
6 Plan B, 15-28. 
7 Plan B, 15. 
8 Plan B, 19. This room, which was divided into 
two unequal parts, was 12.64 meters long 
and 6.09 meters wide. 
9 Plan B, 16-18. The rooms were 4 meters long 
and over 3.50 meters wide. 
10Plan B, 20. 
Plan B, 21. 
12Plan B, 22. 
8Plan B,23. This room is 8.90 by 7.40 meters in 
size. 
“There are remains of a window opening upon the 
colonnade at a later period. 
Plan B, 25-27, and plate v, fig. 1. 
16The walls by which the arches have been filled 
in may be of the same period; it is more 
probable, however, that they were built a 
little later. 
17Plan B, 24. 
