Graffito

((:phallus)) ratio (:rationem) mi cum ponis
Batacare te pidicaro (:pedicavero)
ana


Description of Drawing (English): ((:phallus))
Findspot: Pompeii, Lupanare (VII.12.18-20)
Location metadata ➜
Drawing Category: Erotic images
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus secundum (2); mensurae ex apographo apud (1).
v. 1: RATIO pro RATIONEM
v. 2: PIDICARO pro PEDICARO, i.e. PEDICAVERO: V. Väänänen, Le latin vulgaire des inscriptions pompéiennes, Berlin 1959, 40; v. 2: PIDICARO pro PEDICABO (5)
v. 3: alia manu scriptus (5)
Status huius tituli incertus est: nulla enim imago exstat in A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in C.I.L. vol. IV collecti sunt imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II.
Bibliography: CIL 04, 02254 con apografo, Tab. XXXVI 1 (1), cfr. Add. p. 216 (2)
J. N. Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary, London 1990, p. 123 (3)
A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: iscrizioni d'amore sui muri di Pompei, Rome 1994, p. 127 (4)
Helios 78, 2011, p. 78 n. 30 (S. Levin-Richardson) (5)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR150010 (6)
Link to EDR: #EDR150010
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR150010, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR150010> [accessed: 29 Apr 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Kyle Helms

Last Revision: 2021-07-29

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