Graffito mentioning travel

((:vela))
Antiochus
hic mansit
cum sua
cithera (:cythera)


Translation Antiochus stayed here with his Cythera
Description of Drawing (English) Sails
Findspot Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location col. CXI, stria 10
Drawing Category Boats
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (6) et mensurae secundum (2). Contulerunt ad imaginem a. 2018 Benefiel, Damer, Sypniewski (AGP) et Pompeiis a. 2019.
Della Corte (1)-(2) putavit hanc imaginem subligaculum gladiatoris esse et partem tituli EDR167713 (galea gladiatoria, supra), sed vere vela navis sunt. Cf. alias naves compositas litterarum EDR147717, EDR147687, EDR147916.
v. 1: textus descriptus sic: figura di gladiatore...ed il subligaculum (1); subligaculum rustice delineata (2); Segel? (4)
vv. 2-3: Litterae S in ANTIOCHUS (v. 2) et MANSIT (v.3) coniunguntur.
v. 5: CITHERA pro Cythera scriptum (2).
Infra EDR167713, EDR167948. In eadem columna EDR167712, EDR167952, EDR167951.
Bibliography Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 299, nr. 378-379 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08792b (2)
A. Varone, Erotica pompeiana: Love inscriptions on the walls of Pompeii, Roma 2001, p. 47 (3)
M. Langner, Antike Graffitizeichnungen, Wiesbaden 2001, n. 24 (Buchstabenschiff) (4)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL vol. IV collecti sunt: Imagines, Roma 2012, Vol. I, p. 192 (5)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR147923 (6)
Link to EDR #EDR147923
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR147923, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR147923> [accessed: 01 Apr 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Erika Damer, Holly Sypniewski

Contributors: E. Zimmermann Damer, C. Creamer, M. Holcomb, M. P. Lewis, J. Rach

Last Revision: 2021-12-23

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