Salve! *clasps hands* I enjoy having visitors! My full name is Pompeius Tullius Servilius. But everyone calls me Pompeius.

Do you want a drink? I use to give my visitors a drink in the atrium. I am a friendly man, and I am called the nicest innkeeper in Pompeii. You must be tired after your long journey. We can have a talk in the atrium. You can tell me how I can help you. Is this a social call, or do you have a business to discuss?

Well, don't mind Cerbullus. He don't bite. He helps me to watch the domus since I am often in the Tavern of the Lovely Mermaid.

My residence is the Casa del Centenario (House of the Centenary) on the Via Nola in Pompeii.

It is a residence constructed by jointing three houses. It is a large house with two a double atrium. The floors are covered with mosaics and the walls are decorated with paintings of theatrical scenes. These paintings are also found in oeci, the adjoining rooms to the tablinum. The background colour of right atrium is black, and the background colour of the left atrium (the Toscan atrium) is white. The walls of the tablinum are decorated with yellow wood panelling with the emblems of Juno, Apollo and Minerva.

Close to the pool in the courtyard on the north side, which is enclosed by two rows of columns, is a copy of the beautiful "Satyr with goatskin". In the background of the courtyard is a beautiful nymph grotto with a mosaic fountain covered with images of birds, pools and animals.

In the lower part of the house there are an other atrium with a lararium, a bath-room and some rooms, of which one is painted with three wood panellings on a black background.

I am the innkeeper of The Tavern The Lovely Mermaid in Pompeii. You are always welcome to visit the tavern.