Crossword-Solution: OIKOS 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The baptistery proper was commonly a circular building, although sometimes it had eight and sometimes twelve sides, and consisted of an ante-room ([Greek: proaulios oikos]) where the catechumens were instructed, and where before baptism they made their confession of faith, and an inner apartment where the sacrament was administered.

Chrysippus told us that they were made at Babylon, and had cost four millions of sesterces.[12] "The mosaic pavement, by a singular caprice of the architect, represented all the fragments of a feast, as if they had fallen in common course on the floor; so that at the first glance the room seemed not to have been swept since the last meal, and it was called from hence, _asarotos oikos_, the unswept saloon.

The most famous workman in this kind was Sosus, who wrought at Pergamus the pavement which is called _asarotus oikos_, the unswept hall, made of quarrels or square tesseræ of different colors, in such a way as to resemble the crumbs and scraps that fell from the table, and such-like things as usually are swept away, as if they were still left by negligence upon the pavement.