[Illustration: Fig. 143.--Transverse section of the house of the Faun, showing the two atriums with adjoining rooms. Sleeping room (f) Tuscan atrium (B) with entrance of tablinum (D) Left ala (c) of tetrastyle atrium Tetrastyle atrium (b) Right ala (c')] In one of the rooms at the front (_e_) there are traces of shelves; stairs at one side led to the upper rooms at the left of the atrium, the shape and size of which are indicated in Fig. 143. On the right, also, there were small chambers over _g_, _h_, and _h'_, on the same level as the second floor of the shop in front (4), and accessible only by means of the stairway in this shop; there were no other stairs in this corner of the house, and these rooms could not have been connected with chambers over other parts of the atrium, because there were no upper rooms over the fauces and the right ala (_c'_). Another stairway in _d_, partly of wood, led to chambers over _i_, _d'_, _n'_, _n_, _o_, _o'_, and part of the kitchen, M. Bronze vessels and remains of ivory feet belonging to a bedstead were found in the double room _h_, _h'_; but it is more likely that this was used as a storeroom for discarded furniture than that members of the family slept here. A long corridor at the end of the first peristyle (_m_) connected the rooms at the right of the small atrium with the closet (_n_), the bath (_o_, _o'_), the kitchen (M), and the large bedroom (N) opening on the second peristyle. The two rooms of the bath, tepidarium and caldarium, were provided with hollow floors and walls, and were heated from the kitchen, into which the draft vents (p. 188) opened; in order to make the smoke less objectionable, the kitchen was built very high, with several windows. The kitchen is of unusual size. A niche for the images of the household gods was placed in the wall at the left, so high up that it could only have been reached by means of a ladder. The front is shaped to resemble the façade of a small temple, and in it is a small altar of terra cotta for the burning of incense. The first room at the right of the corridor (_n'_) was completely excavated in 1900, and found to be a stall. In it were brought to light the skeletons of two cows and of four human beings, an adult and three children. CHAPTER XXXVII _A HOUSE NEAR THE PORTA MARINA_