Ancient Graffiti Project :: Graffito Information

ven[i]vit
muleri (:mulieri)
D(ecimi) Lucreti Vale(ntis)
Onus(tus?)
eques I
r(ationis?),
Saga
tr(aex) (:thraex)
m(urmillo)
I (rationis)

Symbol	Meaning
[abc]	Letters once present, now missing due to damage to the surface or support
a(bc)	Abbreviation; text was never written out; expanded by editor
(:abc)	Gives standard spelling to explain non-standard text in an inscription (used by EDR and AGP)
?	Represents uncertainty

Translation:	Sold(?) to the wife of Decimus Lucretius Valens, Onustus, a first-rate gladiator, and Sagatus, a first-rate Thracian-murmillo.
Findspot:	Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1) Location metadata ➜
Language:	Latin
Writing Style:	Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus:	Textus secundum (1). Contulerunt E. Zimmermann Damer et R. Benefiel a. 2019 (AGP). Tectorio nunc valde abraso, periit (4). v. 2: MULERI pro MULIERI v. 3: D LUCRETI (1) v. 7: vel Sagatus (2) In eadem columna EDR127976, EDR127977, EDR128059
Bibliography:	Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 257, nr. 100 (M. Della Corte) (1) CIL 04, 08590 con apografo (2) A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: iscrizioni d'amore sui muri di Pompei, Rome 1994, p. 146 (3) http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127972 (4)
Link to EDR:	#EDR127972
Suggested Citation:	AGP-EDR127972, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127972> [accessed: 23 Nov 2024]
Contributions:	Editor: Rebecca Benefiel Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Caroline Hutchinson, Holly Sypniewski Contributors: E. Zimmermann Damer, C. Creamer, M. Holcomb, M. P. Lewis, J. Rach Last Revision: 2021-08-14