Beyond the impluvium is the place of a small altar for the worship of the Lares. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
There are nine wide pedestrians in the impluvium. From Wordnik.com. [hamletwildie Diary Entry] Reference
In the restoration, the impluvium is surrounded with a mosaic border. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
View of Atrium XLV, with the impluvium, nymphaeum, and lime kiln from the south. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 5] Reference
The latter apartment was paved with marble, with a gentle inclination towards the impluvium. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In the dull, gray stone impluvium of this house, there is no fountain skittering delightfully. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Pompeii - Ancient Tour] Reference
The impluvium in the middle appears to have been under repair, as it is stripped of its marble lining. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
This was confirmed by two openings in the edges of the impluvium: one in the north and one in the southwest. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 7] Reference
View of the Italian-style "atrium" (room XLV) of the palatial mansion with the "impluvium" in the foreground. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 2] Reference
Anyhow, the presence of this kind of atrium with a real impluvium is rather rare in Asia Minor, certainly in late antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 7] Reference
Uncovered court with an impluvium, which collected the rain water and fed a cistern, whence the common household wants were supplied. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Beside the impluvium stood a machine, now in the National Museum, for heating water, and at the same time warming the room if requisite. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Full-length statues, each painted to simulate life, stood around the impluvium pool and the walls, some on marble plinths, some on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Below, lions 'heads are placed along the cornice at intervals, forming spouts through which the water was discharged into the impluvium beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In the centre of the view is the atrium, easily recognized by the impluvium, and beyond it through the tablinum are seen the pillars of the portico. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The heart of this part of the house was a rectangular atrium with impluvium and private nymphaeum (Room XLV) entered via Corridor LIX (not fully investigated). From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 2] Reference
It offers to the eye, successively, the doorway, the prothyrum, the atrium, with its impluvium, the Ionic peristyle, and the garden wall, with Vesuvius in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
But what had happened to the exquisite garden in the impluvium?. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The Greek house had no atrium with its impluvium, nor anything corresponding to it. From Wordnik.com. [Was Christ Born in Bethlehem?] Reference
But he withdrew it quickly, for from the impluvium arose the rattle of arms, and loud, confused noise. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Amphitryon of Plautus, l. 1108, two great snakes come down through the “impluvium,” or “sky-light.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes] Reference
Still he sprang from the couch, groped his way to the door, opened it, and entered the impluvium that adjoined his bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The breadth of the free passage is 1 metre 92 centimetres; and the disposal suggested an inner peristyle, forming an impluvium. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
“impluvium,” see the Notes to the Miles Gloriosus of Plautus, l. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes] Reference
“fallen from the tiles (i.e., the roof) through the impluvium,” expressing the same meaning in a fuller way. From Wordnik.com. [Was Christ Born in Bethlehem?] Reference
The atrium with its impluvium seen from the west. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 7] Reference
If not, I will let myself be beaten with clubs in this impluvium. ". From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
The impluvium is marble. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Vinicius, standing near the impluvium, turned to. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
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