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 architecture is that of the Tufa Period, and the well preserved decoration of the atrium, tablinum, alae, and the dining room at the left of the tablinum (Fig. 134, 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 important 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 connected 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. A broad window in the rear of the left ala opened into this colonnade (p. 259), a part of which was afterwards enclosed, making two small rooms (23, 18). At the end of the latter room a stairway was built leading to chambers; in the beginning the house had no second floor. [Illustration: Fig. 134.--Plan of the house of Sallust. 1. Fauces. 2, 3. Shops opening on the fauces. 4, 5. Shops. 6-9. Bakery (6. Millroom with three mills (_a_), and stairway to upper floor. 7. Oven. 8. Kneading room.) 9. Kitchen. 10. Tuscan atrium, with impluvium (11). 12. Anteroom leading to dining room (13). 17, 17. Alae. 19. Tablinum. 20. Andron, with doors at both ends. 21. Colonnade opening on the garden (24, 24'). 25. Garden triclinium. 29-36. Private apartments, added in Roman times to the older dwelling (31. Colonnade. 32. Garden. 33, 34. Sleeping rooms. 35. Dining room. 36. Kitchen.)] The andron (20), the wardrobe (17') at the side of the right ala, and the small room back of it (28) were made out of a square room corresponding in dimensions with that at the other end of the tablinum (22). The latter was originally entered from the atrium by a door at _e_, which was closed when the wide door was made at the rear opening upon the colonnade. At the rear of the tablinum is a broad window.