The plan of another inn in the same region (west side of VII. xii) well illustrates the arrangements of these hostelries (Fig. 231). The main room (_a_), which probably served as a dining room, is entered directly from the street. At one side is the kitchen (_h_); six sleeping rooms (_b-g_) open upon the other sides. But the landlord did not provide merely for the entertainment of guests from out of town; he endeavored to attract local patronage also, by means of a wineshop (_n_), which opened upon the street and had a separate dining room (_o_). A short passage (_i_) led from the main room to the stalls (_k_), in front of which was a watering trough. The vehicles were probably crowded into the recess at _m_, or the front of _a_. The two side rooms (_l_ and _p_) were closets. [Illustration: Fig. 231.--Plan of an inn.] The walls of several of the rooms contain records of the sojourn of guests. C. Valerius Venustus, 'a pretorian of the first cohort, enrolled in the century of Rufus,' scratched his name on the wall of _c_, to which also an affectionate husband confided his loneliness: 'Here slept Vibius Restitutus all by himself, his heart filled with longings for his Urbana.' Four players, one of them a Martial, passed a night together in the same apartment. In the next room (_d_) a patriotic citizen of Puteoli left a greeting for his native town: 'Well be it ever with Puteoli, colony of Nero, of the Claudian line; C. Julius Speratus wrote this.' This city, as we learn from Tacitus, received permission from Nero to call itself Colonia Claudia Neronensis. Lucifer and Primigenius, two friends, spent a night in room _f_, Lucceius Albanus of Abellinum (Avellino) in _g_. The arrangement of rooms here is so unlike that of an ordinary house that the building must have been designed at the beginning for a tavern. Sometimes a dwelling was turned into an inn, as in the case of the house of Sallust, which, as we have seen, in the last years of the city must in part at least have been used as a hostelry.