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The most elegant room was designed for men's gatherings and feasts. Paul middle of the room sometimes pave with pebbles lay out in the form of ornamental mosaic. Arranged along the walls of the bed for guests. Basic life inhabitants of the house proceeded to the room with a fireplace, before which was usually covered portico. Some of the rooms on the ground floor allocated for storage, workshops and homes of slaves. Bedrooms and women's rooms were located on the second floor. In wealthy homes had bathrooms, placed near the kitchen. Bath in the form of stone or ceramic seats was buried in the floor, which is coated with a solution of a mixture of sand, lime and crushed ceramics. Bathrooms were heated by hot air, passing through from the furnace between the stone columns, supporting the floor. Sewage derived by stones laid out channels. Water is delivered to the house for water supply of baked clay pipes. Home wealthier citizens had larger area and more rich decoration. Particularly close attention to landscaping and interior design houses have begun to pay in the Hellenistic period. Wealthy citizens began to build multi-room home. The floors in the main rooms and the courtyard decorated with mosaics, walls covered with plaster and painted, sometimes brick tiles of colored marble. Sometimes in the house staged two courtyards. The center houses a swimming pool with mosaic floors. With the roof in their dripping rainwater. There were tanks for water storage. The doors were wooden, and thresholds - a stone with grooves for the bronze thrust bearings, which revolve the door. The walls of houses plastered and decorated with paintings with figured compositions. In the niches of the walls put vases, statuettes, paintings were hung. In the Hellenistic era the rich build luxury holiday villas surrounded by gardens and parks with pavilions, ponds, fountains. But to construct this type of housing could afford himself only rich people. Ordinary citizens and the poor lived in modest small homes.
Rural houses were usually much more modest town houses. They had a large household yard, paved with stone. Located around the residential and business premises. |