House of Sallustio
Damaged by the bombing in 1943, the house is one of the most ancient (3rd cent. BC): it is attributed to A. Cossius Libanus, as suggested by a signet ring found in 1806, and not to the C. Sallustio mentioned on the façade. It may have been converted into an inn, with many rooms, even on the upper floor added later. It retains part of the luxurious ‘first style’ decoration: the ancient garden had two porticos with limestone columns. On the edge of the tufa impluvium in the atrium was a bronze fawn. A corridor leads to the rooms added to the original core in the 1st cent. BC, perhaps used by the innkeeper: here, on the back wall of a small garden, is the depiction of Actaeon attacked by the dogs, because he had dared to see the goddess Diana naked.
