{"content":"Methe Cominiaes Atellana amat Chrestum corde [si]t utreis que (:utrisque)  Venus Pompeiana propitia [e]t sem[per] concordes veivant (:vivant)","bibliography":"Rhein. Mus., 5, 1847 p. 460 (T. Mommsen) (1)<br>Giornale degli Scavi di Pompei, 1851, fasc. 2, p. VII n. 29 (G. Fiorelli) (2)<br>R. Garrucci, Intorno ad alcune iscrizioni antiche di Salerno, Naples 1851, p. 17 (3)<br>ILS 5682 (4) <br>R. Garrucci, Graffiti de Pompéi: inscriptions et gravures tracées au stylet, recueillies et interprétées, Paris 1856, p. 89, con apografo, Tab. XXVI 44 (5)<br>Ber. Verhandl. Sächs. Gesellsch., IX, 1857, p. 194 (O. Jahn) (6)<br>CIL 04, 02457, con apografo Tab. XXXIX 2 (7)<br>E. Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften und Verwandtes, Bonn 1910, p. 30 nr. 493 (8)<br>H. Geist and W. Krenkel, Pompeianische Wandinschriften (2 ed.), Munich 1960, p. 52 nr. 14 (9)<br>P. Ciprotti, Pompei, Rome 1962, p. 29, 115 (10)<br>V. Väänänen, Le latin vulgaire des inscriptions pompéiennes (3 ed.), Berlin 1966, p. 83 (11)<br>M. Gigante, Civilità delle forme letterarie nell'antica Pompei, Naples 1979, p. 146 (12)<br>A. Varone, Presenze giudaiche e cristiane a Pompei, Naples 1979, p. 40 nr. 29, p. 93 (13)<br>Am. Journ. Philol., 108, 1987, p. 103 (J. Franklin) (14)<br>A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome 2002, p. 164 (15)<br>V. Hunink, Glücklich ist dieser Ort! 1000 Graffiti aus Pompeji, Stuttgart 2011, p. 276, nr. 813 (16)<br>A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in C.I.L. vol. IV collecti sunt, Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, p. 409, p. 515 (17)<br>A. Cooley and M. Cooley, Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook (2 ed.), New York 2014, p. 128, nr. E25, con tradiz. inglese (18)<br>A. Strong, Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World, Cambridge 2016, p. 130 (19)<br>http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR168048 (20)","apparatus":"Textus secundum (7), mensurae secundum (20). Contulerunt DiBiasie-Sammons et Helms (AGP) a. 2019.<br>Tectorium in multis locis in pulverem corruit. Ex PROPITIA ad CONCORDES solum vestigia dubia remanent (20).  <br>v. 1: interpuncta post METHE, COMINIAES, ATELLANA, AMAT, CHRESTVM et POMPEIANA (1); post CORDE, SIT, VTREISQVE, VENVS, POMPEIANA, PROPITIA, ET, et CONCORDES (2). a. 2019 solum interpuncta post CHRESTVM et POMPEIANA exstant (20).<br>COMINIAES genitivus (1), (11); COMINIAE S(ERVA) (9)<br>CHRESTVM pro CHRISTVM (10), contra (13).<br>VTREISQVE (1)(2)(5); VTREIS QVE (7)(15)(20)<br>Littera E in ET scriptum ut II (5)<br>[S]EM[PER] (1)-(2); SEM[P]E[R] (6)<br>Ante finem aetatis Augusti (13)  <br>Pone EDR168057","photos":[{"photoId":"168048","thumbPath":"https://ancientgraffiti.org/graffiti_images//th_168048.jpg","pagePath":"http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/view_img.php?lang=en&id_nr=168048","imagePath":"https://ancientgraffiti.org/graffiti_images//168048.jpg"},{"photoId":"168048-1","thumbPath":"https://ancientgraffiti.org/graffiti_images//th_168048-1.jpg","pagePath":"http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/view_img.php?lang=en&id_nr=168048-1","imagePath":"https://ancientgraffiti.org/graffiti_images//168048-1.jpg"}],"sourceFindSpot":"Pompei (Napoli), Regio VIII.7.20, Corridoio dei Teatri, muro sud","principleContributors":"Kyle Helms","lastRevision":"2020-04-18","editor":"Rebecca Benefiel","contentTranslation":"Methe, a slave of Cominia, from the town of Atella, loves Chrestus. May Pompeian Venus be propitious in her heart to them both and may they always live harmoniously.","caption":"Statement about love","writingStyleInEnglish":"Graffito/incised","languageInEnglish":"Latin","property":{"englishPropertyName":"Theater Corridor","italianPropertyName":"Corridoio dei Teatri","insula":{"shortName":"VIII.7","fullName":"Insula VIII.7","city":{"name":"Pompeii","pleiadesId":"433032"}},"propertyTypes":[{"name":"Public Building","description":"Buildings that served the public, such as public baths, law courts, entertainment complexes"}],"numberOfGraffiti":156,"uri":"Pompeii/VIII.7/20","propertyName":"Corridoio dei Teatri","propertyNumber":"20"},"cil":"2457","figuralInfo":{},"contributors":"J. DiBiasie-Sammons, K. Helms, A. Acevedo, L. Barth, V. Guyton, J. Lee, N. Sumrall","trismegistosNumber":null,"uri":"https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR168048","agpId":"AGP-EDR168048","citation":"AGP-EDR168048, <i>The Ancient Graffiti Project</i>, &lt;https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR168048&gt; [accessed: 25 Apr 2026]","pleiadesId":"433032","locationMetadataLink":"properties/Pompeii/VIII.7/20"}