Pompeii & Herculaneum: Glossary Part 1

Town magistrate who looked after day-to-day administration

• Duumvir

• Aedile

• Comitium

• Ordo Decurionum

Oval-shaped arena used for gladiatorial games and spectacles

• Theatre

• Odium

• Amphitheatre

• Palaestra

Changing room at the baths; used as a waiting room for slaves and attendants

• Apodyterium

• Laconicum

• Calderium

• Thermopolium

Structure that carries water from a distance

• Canal

• Aqueduct

• Apochae

• Cella

Decorated central hall of a Roman house

• Cubiculum

• Culina

• Atrium

• Fauces

A group of freedmen who celebrated the cult of the emperor

• Augusts

• Vespasianii

• Augustales

• Vespasianales

Colonnaded hall used for business and justice

• Forum

• Basilica

• Curia

• Comitium

Room in the bathhouse containing the hot bath

• Caldarium

• Laconicum

• Apodyterium

• Frigidarium

Minor street that crosses the main axial roads; the north-south axis

• Cardo

• Decumanus

The Castellum Acquae was:

• an aqueduct

• the water fountains found on the street

• a public latrine

• a cistern for collecting water