. Pompeii : its life and art . easant to the ear. If the vegetation wasnot too luxuriant, one might look into the exedra, on the furtherside of the colonnade, and even catch glimpses of the trees andbushes in the garden of the second peristyle. Of the rooms at the side of the atrium, one (/) was appar-ently the family sleeping room ; places for two beds were setoff by slight elevations in the floor. This room had been care- 286 POMPEII fully redecorated in the second style ; the room opposite, thedecoration of which was inferior to that of the rest, was perhapsused by the porter (atricnsis). T
. Pompeii : its life and art . easant to the ear. If the vegetation wasnot too luxuriant, one might look into the exedra, on the furtherside of the colonnade, and even catch glimpses of the trees andbushes in the garden of the second peristyle. Of the rooms at the side of the atrium, one (/) was appar-ently the family sleeping room ; places for two beds were setoff by slight elevations in the floor. This room had been care- 286 POMPEII fully redecorated in the second style ; the room opposite, thedecoration of which was inferior to that of the rest, was perhapsused by the porter (atricnsis). The tablinum (D), like that of the house of Sallust, had abroad window opening on the colonnade of the peristyle. Inthe middle of this room is a rectangular section paved with loz-enge-shaped pieces of black, white, and green stone ; tne rest ofthe floor is of white mosaic The floor of each ala was orna-mented with a mosaic picture. In that at the left (C) were dovespulling a necklace out of a casket — a work of slight Vestibule FaucesDoor Ala (C) Tablinum (D) Fig. 136. — Longitudinal section of the house of the Faun, showing the large Tuscan atrium with eompluvium andimpluvium (B) The mosaic picture found in the right ala is characterized bydelicacy of execution and harmonious coloring. It is dividedinto two parts; above is a cat with a partridge; below, ducks,fishes, and shellfish. A large window in the rear wall of thisala opens into the small atrium, not for the admission of light,but for ventilation ; in summer there would be a circulation ofair between the two atriums. Two doors, at the right and the left of the tablinum (seen inFig. 138), opened into large dining rooms, one (E) nearly square,the other (F) oblong. Both had large windows on the sideof the peristyle, and the one at the left also a door openingupon the colonnade. The mosaic pictures in the floors har-monized well with the purpose of the rooms. In one were fishesof various kinds, and sea monsters ;
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