Roman Villa Dining Room

Class association occupants patrician senatorial class equestrian class plebeian freedman.

Roman villa dining room.

This digital recreation of diners in the triclinium of the roman villa at boscoreale shows how the eyes of a person entering the dining room were drawn to the middle seat on the middle couch. It is one of the largest roman villas in britain. The roman villa was a type of domestic building often luxurious and found in the countryside and at the seashore although also in the periphery of urban centers. Now the dining room was considered as a privileged place by the ancient romans.

Places open are a one way route around the outdoor features of the villa the museum and the west range building main mosaics dining room and bathhouse. Triclinia is a formal dining room in a roman building. Triclinium in itself roughly translates to three couch place because the guests treated here with lavish dinner parties often ate and drank their sumptuous fares by lying on their sides on the couches that were arranged in a u shaped fashion. The mosaic in this pleasant room contained tesserae of numerous colours white red dark blue grey brown grey yellow ochre and some of a purplish brown.

The mosaic floor of the triclinium dining room includes an image of bacchus embracing ariadne and it was overlooked from special bases by statues of diana and of lar the household god. She takes him to see her newly painted frescos and describes how they were painted before relaxing in the dining room. This 4th century room was 29 feet by 19 feet in size and was heated by a hypocaust. From monday 24 august the café will be open for takeaway drinks and snacks.

The word is adopted from the greek triklinion τρικλίνιον from tri τρι three and klinē κλίνη a sort of couch or rather chaise longue. The very rich could afford luxurious country estates spread out across many acres. The villa was built in phases from the early 2nd century to the 4th century with the 4th century construction transforming the building into an elite dwelling arranged around three sides of a courtyard. The finest creation being constructed for the dining room triclinium room 5.

The roman triclinium or the roman dining room the upper class ate in a dining room called the triclinium from the greek word triklinion which can be broken into tri three and klinon couch. Reproduction of a triclinium a triclinium plural.