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impluvium

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impluvium
impluvium, A
In ancient Roman dwellings, a cistern set in the atrium or peristyle to receive water from the roofs.
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Moneo's taut, elegant new part docks into the old palace to create an impluvium style courtyard.
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There still exist more than 900 of them, which once probably decorated pillars of the spacious impluvium courtyards of the royal palace.
Benin--Kings and Rituals: court arts from Nigeria by Plankensteiner, Barbara / African Arts
Sometimes the atrium is a tetrastyle in which pillars at the four corners of the impluvium support girders or main beams of the roof.
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