In the houses described in the preceding chapters the distribution of the rooms is characterized by a certain regularity, which makes it possible to indicate the arrangements by reference to an ideal or normal plan. A wide departure, however, is occasionally noted; and by way of illustration three houses of unusual plan will be briefly presented here, first a house without an atrium, then one having an atrium but no compluvium, and, lastly, a large establishment built on terraces at different levels. I. THE HOUSE OF ACCEPTUS AND EUHODIA [Illustration: Fig. 172.--The House of Acceptus and Euhodia. _a._ Colonnade. _b._ Garden. _c._ Kitchen. _d._ Bedroom. _f._ Dining room. _g._ Garden. _i._ Bedroom with places for two beds.] Sometimes a few rooms of a large house were cut off from the atrium and used as a separate dwelling; the original plan in such cases is easily determined. The number of houses built without an atrium in the beginning is exceedingly small. Among the pleasantest was the modest dwelling of Acceptus and Euhodia, on the south side of the double Insula in the eighth Region (VIII. v.-vi. 39); the names are taken from a couple of election notices painted on the front, in which they appear together. From the street one passed directly under a colonnade (Fig. 172, _a_) in two stories, facing a small garden (_b_), from which it was separated by a low wall. At one end of the garden was an open-air triclinium (_k_), which still remains. The rest of the plot, used as a flower garden, was profusely ornamented; five heads of herms, a frog and other objects of marble were found in it, besides a couple of alabaster basins and five statuettes of Egyptian divinities made of glazed pottery. In the corner of the colonnade, between the garden and the entrance, is a small hearth, conveniently placed for serving the open-air triclinium; in the opposite corner at the left the excavators found the remains of a cupboard, together with vessels of bronze, glass, and clay. At the further end of the colonnade one passed into another small garden (_g_). [Illustration: Fig. 173.--Longitudinal section of the house of Acceptus and Euhodia, restored.] A bedroom (_d_) opened on the colonnade near the entrance. A corridor (_e_) led to the kitchen (_c_) behind it. Beyond the corridor is the dining room (_f_). Another sleeping room (_i_) with places for two beds is entered through a kind of anteroom (_h_) at the rear of the house. The rooms of the second story corresponded closely with those underneath, and were entered from the second story of the colonnade; the stairs, partly of wood, started in the kitchen. The appearance of the house as one looked from the garden at the right toward the colonnade may be inferred from our restoration, which gives a longitudinal section (Fig. 173); the letters under the section refer to the rooms as they are indicated in the plan.