tablinum research

THE TABLINUM

In Roman Architecture there was a room named the Tablinum The Roman domus was typically designed so that anyone standing in the vestibule could see straight through the atrium and tablinum to the colonnaded garden in the back of the house—a very impressive vista! In this room the family records were stored; here was the chest containing family finances. Here also elite families would display the imagines, busts of famous ancestors. In this room, too, the master of the house, the paterfamilias, would greet his many clients on their morning visits The tablinum often had an attractive mosaic floor and wall paintings.