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Cutaway of a Roman house in Pompeii (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why aren't there any callouts for the actual necessary parts of the house (you know, places where people slept etc.)?

It kinda pisses me off how useless this drawing is for explaining how the damn thing functions as habitation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bottom left says it’s showing the courtyard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's showing the whole house (minus the no-longer-existing second floor, I guess). The problem is that it doesn't have lines pointing out the cubicula, even though at least some of them would be visible if there were roof cutaways for them.

Edit: in fact, that room between the "atrium and pool" callout and the "shrine" callout is apparently a cubiculum, but they couldn't be bothered to label it!

https://web.archive.org/web/20160306034506/http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/rooms?houseid=18

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

To be fair, i don't know anyone that bothers about running around labeling cubiculums.