CLAS 21405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Travertine, Lares, Triclinium
15 Sep 2017
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Housing for poor: smaller houses and also the rental of a room or rooms to individuals of lesser means, many lived in rooms above their shops. Indeed, frequently the roman solution to inadequate space for new building in the face of ever growing demand was to build up rather than out ie apartment buildings. It is likely that it duplicated that on the ground floor, but it is also possible that it contained smaller apartments accessed by a balconied walkway which ran along the side of the structure. The medianum functioned much like an atrium in the houses of pompeii, with the other, more interior rooms opening off of it. Like most of ostia, these apartments are made of concrete with brick facing. Indeed, although we have many apartment buildings preserved in ostia, there are actually very few apartments visible because these apartments only began on the second floor.
