House of the Faun

By:Karan Dhaliwal

Entrance• “HAVE” outside the

private entrance to the house. A greeting both for meeting and parting.

• Most houses had unimpressive entrances but Some wealthier entrances were monumental, such as the entrance to the House of the Faun (left bottom).

Public Entrance (Vestibule) Fauces• The narrow entry

way is called the fauces and opens into the atrium.

• It is thought that these served as a kind of household shrine (lararium) that greeted visitors to the house.

Tuscan Atrium (public)• Unlike other houses the

house of the faun was a wealthy estate which was divided into public and private.

• This atrium is the public atrium wealth of the owners were expressed here.

• Tuscan atrium suggest Greek influence.

Features of an Atrium

• Impluvium surrounds the statue of the faun, before 79ad there would have been a structure around the atrium including a compluvium as the reconstruction on the left suggests.

• Peristilium surrounds the atrium, a garden.

Faun Exerdra

• This is known to be the dynamic passageway between the public and private peristliums

Tablinum

• The tablinum served as a reception room and was located off the atrium for meeting clients, visitors.

Lararium

• Inside the kitchen of the Faun but typically situated inside the atrium contain the sacred household shrine.

Cubicula

• Around the atrium were small rooms such as the bedrooms.

Peristyle public

• Under the Hellenistic influence, domestic architecture replaced and enlarged the early vegetable garden to create an open space surrounded by a covered arcade

Peristyle-private

• This peristyle came after the public part of the house ended at the Exerdra.

• The private garden in the house of the Faun was greatly extravagant than the rest of the house as the owner’s place of relaxation from the public eye.