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INNS AND WINESHOPS
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upon the street and had a separate dining room (o'). A short
passage (?) led from the main room to the stalls (k), in front of
which was a watering trough. The vehicles were probably
crowded into the recess at m, or the front of a.
The two side rooms (Z and /) were closets.
The walls of several of the rooms contain
records of the sojourn of guests. C. Valerius
Venustus, ‘ a pretorian of the first cohort, en-
rolled in the century of Rufus,’ scratched his
name on the wall of e, to which also an affec-
tionate husband confided his loneliness : ‘ Here
slept Vibius Restitutus all by himself, his heart
filled with longings for his Urbana.’ Three
players and their friend Martial passed a night
together in the same apartment. In the next
room (<7) a patriotic citizen of Puteoli left a
Fig. 22i. — Plan of an
inn.
greeting for his native town : ‘ Well be it ever with Puteoli, col-
ony of Nero, of the Claudian line; C. Julius Speratus wrote this.’
This city, as we learn from Tacitus, received permission from
Nero to call itself Colonia Claudia Neronensis. Lucifer and
Primigenius, two friends, spent a night in room f, Lucceius
Albanus of Abellinum (Avellino) in g.
The arrangement of rooms here is so unlike that of an ordi-
nary house that the building must have been designed at the
beginning for a tavern. Sometimes a dwelling was turned into
an inn, as in the case of the house of Sallust, which, as we have
seen, in the last years of the city must in part at least have
been used as a hostelry.
Inns near the gates had a paved entrance for wagons, inter-
rupting the sidewalk. A good example is the inn of Hermes, in
the first block on the right as one came into the city by the Sta-
bian Gate (Fig. 222). On either side of the broad entrance (<?),
are winerooms (Z>, ff). Behind the stairway at the right, which
leads from the street to the second story, is a hearth with a
water heater. On the wall at the left was formerly a painting
with the two Lares and the Genius offering sacrifice; below was
the figure of a man pouring wine from an amphora into an
earthen hogshead (doHum}, and beside it was written Hermes,
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upon the street and had a separate dining room (o'). A short
passage (?) led from the main room to the stalls (k), in front of
which was a watering trough. The vehicles were probably
crowded into the recess at m, or the front of a.
The two side rooms (Z and /) were closets.
The walls of several of the rooms contain
records of the sojourn of guests. C. Valerius
Venustus, ‘ a pretorian of the first cohort, en-
rolled in the century of Rufus,’ scratched his
name on the wall of e, to which also an affec-
tionate husband confided his loneliness : ‘ Here
slept Vibius Restitutus all by himself, his heart
filled with longings for his Urbana.’ Three
players and their friend Martial passed a night
together in the same apartment. In the next
room (<7) a patriotic citizen of Puteoli left a
Fig. 22i. — Plan of an
inn.
greeting for his native town : ‘ Well be it ever with Puteoli, col-
ony of Nero, of the Claudian line; C. Julius Speratus wrote this.’
This city, as we learn from Tacitus, received permission from
Nero to call itself Colonia Claudia Neronensis. Lucifer and
Primigenius, two friends, spent a night in room f, Lucceius
Albanus of Abellinum (Avellino) in g.
The arrangement of rooms here is so unlike that of an ordi-
nary house that the building must have been designed at the
beginning for a tavern. Sometimes a dwelling was turned into
an inn, as in the case of the house of Sallust, which, as we have
seen, in the last years of the city must in part at least have
been used as a hostelry.
Inns near the gates had a paved entrance for wagons, inter-
rupting the sidewalk. A good example is the inn of Hermes, in
the first block on the right as one came into the city by the Sta-
bian Gate (Fig. 222). On either side of the broad entrance (<?),
are winerooms (Z>, ff). Behind the stairway at the right, which
leads from the street to the second story, is a hearth with a
water heater. On the wall at the left was formerly a painting
with the two Lares and the Genius offering sacrifice; below was
the figure of a man pouring wine from an amphora into an
earthen hogshead (doHum}, and beside it was written Hermes,