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CHAPTER XXXIV
THE HOUSE OF SALLUST
The house of Sallust (VI. ii. 4) received its name from an
election notice, painted on the outside, in which Gaius Sallustius
was recommended for a municipal office. It has no peristyle,
and its original plan closely resembled that of the house of the
Surgeon. It was built in the second century b.c. ; the architec-
ture is that of the Tufa Period, and the well preserved decora-
tion of the atrium, tablinum, alae, and the dining room at the
left of the tablinum (Fig. 129, 22) is of the first style. The
pilasters at the entrances of the alae and the tablinum are also
unusually well preserved; the house is among the most impor-
tant for our knowledge of the period to which it belongs.
The rooms on the left side (6-9) were used as a bakery.
Those in front (2-5) were shops; two of them (2, 3), at the
time of the destruction of the city, opened into the fauces (1)
and another (5) had two rear rooms, one of which was entered
from a side street.
The rooms at the right (31-36) were private apartments
added later and connected with the rest of the house only by
means of the corridor (29), which with the cell designed for the
porter (30) was made over from one of the side rooms of the
atrium.
If we leave these groups of rooms out of consideration, it is
easy to see that the Tuscan atrium and the apartments con-
nected with it — the tablinum (19), the alae (17), and the rooms
at the sides — once formed a symmetrical whole. At the rear
was a garden on two sides (24, 24'), with a colonnade opening
upon it. A broad window in the rear of the left ala opened
into this colonnade, a part of which was afterwards enclosed,
making two small rooms (23, 18). At the end of the latter
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THE HOUSE OF SALLUST
The house of Sallust (VI. ii. 4) received its name from an
election notice, painted on the outside, in which Gaius Sallustius
was recommended for a municipal office. It has no peristyle,
and its original plan closely resembled that of the house of the
Surgeon. It was built in the second century b.c. ; the architec-
ture is that of the Tufa Period, and the well preserved decora-
tion of the atrium, tablinum, alae, and the dining room at the
left of the tablinum (Fig. 129, 22) is of the first style. The
pilasters at the entrances of the alae and the tablinum are also
unusually well preserved; the house is among the most impor-
tant for our knowledge of the period to which it belongs.
The rooms on the left side (6-9) were used as a bakery.
Those in front (2-5) were shops; two of them (2, 3), at the
time of the destruction of the city, opened into the fauces (1)
and another (5) had two rear rooms, one of which was entered
from a side street.
The rooms at the right (31-36) were private apartments
added later and connected with the rest of the house only by
means of the corridor (29), which with the cell designed for the
porter (30) was made over from one of the side rooms of the
atrium.
If we leave these groups of rooms out of consideration, it is
easy to see that the Tuscan atrium and the apartments con-
nected with it — the tablinum (19), the alae (17), and the rooms
at the sides — once formed a symmetrical whole. At the rear
was a garden on two sides (24, 24'), with a colonnade opening
upon it. A broad window in the rear of the left ala opened
into this colonnade, a part of which was afterwards enclosed,
making two small rooms (23, 18). At the end of the latter
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