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Tablinum

Diagram of a Roman house: tablinum in reference 5.

The tablinum is a piece of Etruscan residential and Roman , located at the bottom of the atrium.

Originally the master bedroom, which also housed the chapel of the ancestors, it becomes archives room of the familia, and reception room for clients from their patronus consulted when the house grows.

Several Etruscan tombs of Banditaccia reveals the details (windows, doors and eardrum) as they reproduce the details of life before the death of the deceased to accompany him on his journey to the afterlife.

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  • Heurgon Jacques , Daily Life of the Etruscans, Hachette, 1961 and 1989, p. 190

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