hotels near the excavation entrance.) The ground floor plan (Figs. 8.4 and 8.5) of that house shows two dwellings thrown into one. The smaller, on the left, has typical features: its vestibule leading to an _atrium_ or patio off which open a summer and a winter dining room and a light-well planted with flowers and shrubs. The winter dining-room is frescoed in glossy black; it has a vaulted, coffered ceiling, and a high window closed by a shutter planned to slide into the wall. The usual peristyle, or rectangular portico behind the _atrium_, is missing, its function supplied by the loggias on the upper floor and the large sunken garden behind the larger house. The garden was planned as a little grove sacred to Diana. Her statue was found in the middle of the garden, with a little bronze incense-burner in the shape of a ram still in place on its pedestal, and large trees planted around it. The pleasant summer dining room fills the garden’s southwest corner. In it the marble-topped table was found set for a meal or sacrifice (Fig. 8.6). In the corner was a brazier and a pitcher for hot water. Three couplets painted on the wall prescribed etiquette for the diners, and give the house its name: “Don’t put your dirty feet on our couch covers; if you bicker at table you’ll have to go home; be modest and don’t make eyes at another man’s wife.” There was a dumb-waiter to serve the pleasant loggias on the upper floor overlooking the garden. The pointed jars, amphorae, in the basement, suggest that the Moralist was a wine merchant. A stamp found there gives his name: Gaius Arrius Crescens. Election notices painted on the house front show that he and his family were up to their ears in local politics.