Interior and plan of a Roman house, restoration.  Vestibulum (entrance).  Atrium (reception room).  Impluvium (basin in floor).  Tablinum (a room whose purposes are not certain, at the right and left of which are passages).  Peristylium (open court surrounded by colonnades; the living quarters of the family).  Small sleeping rooms opened off the atrium; at the rear of the house was the Hortus (garden). Click here to enlarge.