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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 337 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TABLINUM (or tabulinum, from tabula, board, picture)

TABLINUM (or tabulinum, from tabula,
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BOARD (O. Eng. bord)
board, picture) , in

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ROMAN

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ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the name given to an apartment generally situated on one

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side of the

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ATRIUM (either from ater, black, referring to the blackening of the walls from the smoke of the hearth, or from the Greek aiOpeov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated)

atrium and opposite to the entrance; it opened in the

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REAR

rear on to the

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PERISTYLE (Gr. wept, round, and oriaos, column)

peristyle, with either a large window or only an anteroom or

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CURTAIN

curtain . The walls were richly decorated with

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FRESCO (Ital. for cool, " fresh ")

fresco pictures, and busts of the

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FAMILY

family were arranged on pedestals on the two sides of the

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ROOM

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