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Impluvium

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Im`plu´vi`um
n.1.(Arch.) In Roman dwellings, a cistern or tank, set in the atrium or peristyle to recieve the water from the roof, by means of the compluvium; generally made ornamental with flowers and works of art around its birm.


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In contrast, in this chthonic realm the pool is a vestigial impluvium (too vestigial, perhaps), which in Roman and Arabic prototypes collected rain from the heavens above and served almost as a mysterious eye to the earth below.
House of retreat: completed some 30 years after its conception, this ... by Buchanan, Peter / The Architectural Review
In even relatively modest Roman houses, water played an integral part, for the atrium, with its central impluvium (rain-water pool), was the first space to be encountered on entering.
Water water by Davey, Peter / The Architectural Review
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