. Pompeii : its life and art . et abovethe floor. In respect to height, this house was not unlike thoseof the next period. In the later years of the city, but before 63, the decorationwas renewed in the fourth style. There are paintings of inter-est, however, only in the room at the rear (19), which had alarge window opening on the garden. In one of the panelshere we see a man sitting with a writing tablet in his hand ;opposite him are two girls, one sitting, the other standing; thelatter holds a roll of papyrus. This kind of genre picture is notuncommon; the type is spoken of elsewhere (p. 46
. Pompeii : its life and art . et abovethe floor. In respect to height, this house was not unlike thoseof the next period. In the later years of the city, but before 63, the decorationwas renewed in the fourth style. There are paintings of inter-est, however, only in the room at the rear (19), which had alarge window opening on the garden. In one of the panelshere we see a man sitting with a writing tablet in his hand ;opposite him are two girls, one sitting, the other standing; thelatter holds a roll of papyrus. This kind of genre picture is notuncommon; the type is spoken of elsewhere (p. 467). In another panel, which was transferred to the Naples 276 POMPEII Museum, a young woman is represented as painting a hermof Dionysus (Fig. 128); a Cupid is holding the unfinished pic-ture while she mixes colors on her palette. Two other maid-ens are watching the artist with unfeigned interest. Upon thepillar behind the herm hangs a small painting; in the vistaanother herm is seen, together with a vase standing on a Fig. 128. — A young woman painting a painting from the house of the Surgeon. The room contained a third picture which is now almostobliterated. Perhaps this pleasant apartment was once theboudoir of a favorite daughter, who busied herself with paintingand verse. CHAPTER XXXIV THE HOUSE OF SALLUST The house of Sallust (VI. ii. 4) received its name from anelection notice, painted on the outside, in which Gaius Sallustiuswas recommended for a municipal office. It has no peristyle,and its original plan closely resembled that of the house of theSurgeon. It was built in the second century ; 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 theleft of the tablinum (Fig. 129, 22) is of the first style. Thepilasters at the entrances of the alae and the tablinum are alsounusually well preserved; the house is among the most impor-tant for our knowledge of the period
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