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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, See also:board, picture)  , in See also:Roman See also:architecture, the name given to an apartment generally situated on one See also:side of the See also:atrium and opposite to the entrance; it opened in the See also:rear on to the See also:peristyle, with either a large window or only an anteroom or See also:curtain . The walls were richly decorated with See also:fresco pictures, and busts of the See also:family were arranged on pedestals on the two sides of the See also:room .

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