Graffito mentioning the men of the third legion

Tertian (:Tertiani) hic abitarut (:habitarunt) [+1?+]ITICES verpa v̲a̲(le)


Translation The men of the third legion were here. (...incomprehensible series of letters...) Farewell, prick!
Findspot Pompeii, Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
Location metadata ➜
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus et mensurae secundum (8), aliter (1)-(7). Contulerunt et emendaverunt Benefiel, DiBiasie-Sammons, Helms (AGP) a. 2019
v. 1: TERTIANIIICAbITARVTV̂RITCESVERPEV̂A (1).
TERTIANI IIC ABITANT CRESCES VERPA VA (2).
TERTIANI HIC (H)ABITANT CRESCES VERPA VA(LE) (3)-(5)(7).
TERTIAN HIC Marichal in schediis, ]ITICES VERPA VA (6)
v. 1: ad finem, litterae VA inter a. 1992 et 2019 evanuerunt; cf. imaginem phot. in (6)
Ante EDR167689
Pone EDR168121, EDR161789, EDR166496
Supra EDR161742, EDR167707
Hic titulus obtegit titulum EDR161789, quare recentior est.
Bibliography CIL 04, 02415 con apographo, Tab. XXXIX 11 (1), cfr. Add. p. 223 (2)
Class. Quart., 1943, 37, p. 110 (F. A. Todd) (3)
J. N. Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary, London 1982, p. 12 (4)
V. Hunink, Glücklich ist dieser Ort! 1000 Graffiti aus Pompeji, Stuttgart 2011, p. 274, nr. 807 (5)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in C.I.L. vol. IV collecti sunt, Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, p. 420, con foto (6)
A. Spal, Poesie-Erotik-Witz, Berlin 2016, p. 148, n. 733 (7)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR161769 (8)
Link to EDR #EDR161769
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR161769, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR161769> [accessed: 02 Apr 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Kyle Helms

Contributors: J. DiBiasie-Sammons, K. Helms, A. Acevedo, L. Barth, V. Guyton, J. Lee, N. Sumrall

Last Revision: 2019-07-18

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