Did Roman houses have doors?
Door Materials For the ancient Romans, the various rooms within a house were separated from each other by doors or often merely by curtains. These interior doors were made of wood like the street doors. They mostly used cypress, oak, or deal and used hard wood such as box-tree, oak, olive, or elm for the bolts and pivots. The wood had to be aged, and after the carpenters glued it, they often left it in the press for years in order to prevent it from warping. To prevent warping of the wood, the doors were not constructed of boards but were provided with paginae (panels). These paginae were let in beneath the surface, and the angle linking the frame and paginae were filled in by molded fillet. The doors of the upper class were veneered and adorned with bronze, ivory, and other ornaments. Ancient doors did not turn on hinges but instead swung round on pivots fixed in the doorsill and the lintel. If the pivots were not of hardwood, the smiths sometimes cast the pivots in bronze. The main e
