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References
Jashemski 1993, 36, 315; Allison 1992b, 309-317; PPM I, 407-482; Michel 1990; Sutherland 1990,
373-374; Collezione 1989, 182, #70-72; Mouritsen 1988, passim; Watts 1987, 36-37, 206-207; PPP I,
39-45; Laidlaw 1985, 61-64; CTP IIIA, 10-11; Guida Laterza 1982, 98-100; Franklin 1980, passim;
Evans 1978, 175-181; Salza Prina Ricotti 1978/80, 244, 248; Bastet & De Vos 1979, 96-99, 127, 135;
Jashemski 1979, 69-70; Guida 1976, 189-191; Castrèn 1975, 151-152; Schefold 1957, 26-28; Della
Corte 1954, 225-227, #540-542; Spinazzola I, 257-281; Pernice 1938, 101-102; Della Corte 1927, 20-
22; Beccarini 1922, 19-20; Della Corte NSc 1914, 256, 292-296, 401-402; 1913, 189-190, 221, 250-252,
254-256.
Data
A) Total area: 331.4 Nodes: 179.5 Connectors: 32.3 Static spaces: 127.7
B) Total # spaces: 17 # Nodes: 2 # Connectors: 4 # Static spaces: 10
C) Area, KI (i): 13.1 Area, DR•(d): 21.5 Length, DR•(d): 4.92 Width, DR•(d): 4.36
Area, DR•(e): 17.1 Length, DR•(e): 5.09 Width, DR•(e): 3.36
D) Entry prox., KI (i): 7.3 Entry prox., DR(d): 16.8 Prox, KI (i)-DR(d): 11.7
Entry prox., DR•(e): 15.9 Prox, KI (i)-DR•(e): 12.9
E) Entry access., KI (i): 4 Entry access., DR•(d): 4 Access, KI (i)-DR•(d): 3
Entry access., DR•(e): 4 Access, KI (i)-DR•(e): 3
F)Sight perc., KI (i)-DR•(d): N Sound perc., KI (i)-DR•(d): T Smell perc., KI (i)-DR•(d): F
Sight perc., KI (i)-DR•(e): N Sound perc., KI (i)-DR•(e): T Smell perc., KI (i)-DR•(e): F
G) Environmental Amenities, dining areas: DR•(d) receives direct lighting from its broad
doorway N onto garden (h); indirect lighting arrives via a door and window S onto atrium (b),
and a window high up in the W wall above neighboring house (I.6.13) (Fig. 5.65). A cross-draft
would have run between the garden and atrium, and the northern orientation of the room would
have been appropriate for summer, as Spinazzola and Michel suggest. The S colonnade of
garden (h) breaks on axis with the doorway of this dining room, allowing a framed view of part
of the center of the megalographic painting on the N wall of the garden, a scene of wild animals
hunting. This scene in the distance extended the vision of those in the room beyond the walls of
the house into a fantastic foreign landscape.
DR•(e) received primary illumination from a wide window cut (after A.D. 62) high up in the E
wall over the garden of the neighboring house (I.6.2). Indirect light entered via the narrow doors
onto atrium (b) and corridor (k) (Fig. 5.66). Although generally a dark room, the black ground
decoration of the lower half of the room would have been lightened somewhat by the white
ground of the upper painted zone. Protected from the elements and provided with a limited
view in a southerly orientation, this room has commonly been described as a winter dining room.
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