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Updated: May 18, 2025
The general arrangements of a Roman house were as follows: next the street an open space was frequently left, with porticoes on each side of it provided with seats: this constituted the vestibule, and was entirely outside the house; the entrance-door opened into a narrow passage, called the prothyrum, which led to the atrium, which in the houses of Republican Rome was the principal apartment, though afterwards it served as a sort of waiting-room for the clients and retainers of the house; it was an open court, roofed in on all the four sides, but open to the sky in the centre.
There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort. Deutsch. Arch. Inst. Prothyron. 7. All this, however, I have not set forth for the purpose of changing the usual terminology or language, but I have thought that it should be explained so that it may be known to scholars.
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