Triclinium [J. Haughton]

When the dining room is not being used for a dinner party, the women use it as a sewing room. Anna and her daughter Julia are there now working on a hooded cloak for Anna's husband, Quintus. Calpurnia is making a new cloak for her little boy, Robertus. Trima, a slave, is helping Anna and Julia. A large table is in the center of the room. The women do not recline, but sit comfortably on the couches leaning over their sewing with the intensity of one examining an old manuscript. On either side of the table there are oil lamps on tall bronze stands. They provide the only light except for the door that opens onto the garden. On one wall there is a small table with intricate carvings on the legs. On the table is a small bronze Lar.
Julia leaves and returns with several scrolls of famous Roman authors.