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Graffito: | S IIIIIIIIIIII XX |
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Translation: | S 32 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) |
CIL: | 10651b |
Graffito: | Vasileus habitat |
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Translation: | Vasileus lives at Puteoli in the camp of the emperor under (the command of) Valerius |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Wattlework (III.14) |
CIL: | 10502 |
Graffito: | ((:herma viri cum palma)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | bust of man with palm |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) |
CIL: | 10604 |
Drawing Categories: | Human figures , Plants |
Graffito: | Mortus (:Mortuus) |
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Translation: | Hercolanius is dead. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) |
CIL: | Varone 2000 |
Graffito: | ((:cervus a viro laqueo captus et a cane assultatus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | stag captured by a man with a rope and attacked by a dog |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Categories: | Human figures , Animals |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | ||||
CIL: | 10711 | ||||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | Ηdibus (:Idibus) Ianyaris (:Ianuarias) |
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Translation: | On the Ides of January, the guide (religious guide?) teaching Gebeus(?) and Etoe(?) (neither name is otherwise known) (...other letters here...) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Wattlework (III.14) |
CIL: | 10499 |
Graffito: | III non(as) M̂âi(as) |
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Translation: | Three days before the Nones of May. Seven days before the Ides, he (it?) died. | ||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||||
Findspot: | Shop (InsulaOrientalisII.16) | ||||||
CIL: | 10668 |
Graffito: | Q(uintus?) V(---) R(---) |
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Translation: | Quintus V(- - -) R(- - -?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Mosaic Atrium (IV.2) |
CIL: | 10516 |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria cum crista)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet with crest | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | |||
CIL: | 10711 | |||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:sex circuli quorum duo simplices et quattuor duplices sunt)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | six circles, two single and four double | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) | |||||
Drawing Category: | Geometric designs |
Graffito: | ((:gryllus feminae cum cornibus, unguibus, dentibus, et alis, falcem aut baculum tenentis)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | caricature of a woman with horns, claws, teeth, and wings, holding a scythe or staff | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | Samnite House (V.1) | ||||
Drawing Categories: | Human figures , Animals |
Graffito: | S(emis) C Y ((mille)) S(emis) S(emis) |
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Translation: | (Series of numbers?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Palaestra (InsulaOrientalisII.4) |
CIL: | 10657 |
Graffito: | REST ((:tres lineae aequae)) |
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Translation: | Rest(itutus?) | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) | ||
CIL: | 10560 |
Graffito: | ((:navis oneraria)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | cargo ship |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Decumanus Maximus |
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | ((:phallus)) |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) |
CIL: | 10535 |
Graffito: | ABCDEFG̣H++[---] |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Locus incertus |
CIL: | 2521 |
Graffito: | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII |
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Translation: | 16 | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Shop of the Gem-cutter (InsulaOrientalisII.10) | |||
CIL: | 10666d |
Graffito: | Echio va(le) |
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Translation: | Goodbye Echio. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) |
CIL: | 10596 |
Graffito: | S nequa(m) |
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Translation: | S never(?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Screen/Partition (III.11) |
CIL: | 10498b |
Graffito: | Ultas |
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Translation: | The (women?) who have avenged (?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Palaestra (InsulaOrientalisII.4) |
CIL: | 10658 |
Graffito: | [F]usci Cilix |
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Translation: | Cilix, (slave) of Fuscus. Cilix. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) |
CIL: | 10681 |
Graffito: | [---]ASV M umor[---] |
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Translation: | (Other letters here...) moisture |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Palaestra (InsulaOrientalisII.4) |
CIL: | 10661 |
Graffito: | PÂM |
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Translation: | P(ublius) A(---) M(---?) | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) | ||||
CIL: | 10625b |
Graffito: | Caetronius |
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Translation: | Caetronius |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) |
CIL: | 10685 |
Graffito: | ABCD |
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Translation: | (Beginning of an alphabet) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Decumanus Maximus |
CIL: | 10714 |
Graffito: | P(ublius) Arriûs |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | So-called College of the Augustales (Curia) (VI.21) |
Graffito: | C(aius) Messenius Eunomus im(:in) curia |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | So-called College of the Augustales (Curia) (VI.21) |
Graffito: | Apollinaris medicus Tìtì Impe(ratoris) 〈:servus〉 |
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Translation: | Apollinaris, doctor, slave of the emperor Titus, pooped well here |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Gem (InsulaOrientalisI.1) |
CIL: | 10619 |
Graffito: | Hermeros Prìmigeniae dominae: |
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Translation: | Hermeros to his mistress Primigenia: come to Puteoli in the Tyanian street and ask from Messius, the money lender, for Hermeros (slave) of Phoebus. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) |
CIL: | 10676 |
Graffito: | Διογένης ὁ κυνικὸς φιλόσοφος |
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Translation: | Diogenes the Cynic philospher, seeing a woman being carried off by the river, said: let the bad thing be carried away by the worse. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) |
CIL: | 10529 |
Graffito: | Cab= |
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Translation: | Sabinio (Σαβινιο) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Two Atria (VI.29) |
CIL: | 10611 |
Graffito: | Fo̲rtunatus · amat · Ampl̲i̲a̲nda (:Ampliandam). |
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Translation: | Fortunatus loves Amplianda. Ianuarius loves Veneria. We ask mistress Venus that you keep us in mind (and also) that which we now ask of you. | ||||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||||||
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) | ||||||||
CIL: | 10697 |
Graffito: | ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜ |
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Translation: | Beginning of Greek alphabet |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Inn (III.19) |
CIL: | 10707 |
Graffito: | XII |
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Translation: | 12 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) |
CIL: | 10682 |
Graffito: | Ἑρμία(ς) |
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Translation: | Hermias (i.e. a name) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) |
CIL: | 10594 |
Graffito: | ((:vir baculo nixus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | man leaning on staff |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) |
CIL: | 10596 |
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria cum crista ad sin.)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet with crest facing left | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | ||||
CIL: | 10711 | ||||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | Φιλιππε̣ |
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Translation: | Oh Philippos! |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Decumanus Inferior (V.34-35) |
CIL: | 10588b |
Graffito: | Salvia Superba |
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Translation: | Salvia Superba |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10583b |
Graffito: | Misit 〈:vacat〉 iter(um?) |
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Translation: | He sent, a second time, female lambs (...other letters here...) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Locus incertus |
CIL: | 5450 |
Graffito: | IVSTAR |
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Translation: | Iusta (i.e. a name)... |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Bronze Herm (III.16) |
CIL: | 10507 |
Graffito: | Κογιτάτουϲ S |
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Translation: | Cogitatus (i.e. a name) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Mosaic Atrium (IV.2) |
CIL: | 10505 |
Graffito: | Qu[aesi]vi hic facias re[s s]erva omnes res tuas [- - -] quem nol[i - - -] nobi[s iun]ge neque servabo |
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Translation: | ... I asked that you do this... all your affairs... which... safe. | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | Taberna (IV.10) | ||
CIL: | 10522 |
Graffito: | Θ |
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Translation: | Θ Faustus Nothus Nothus | ||||
Description of Drawing (English): | names FAVSTVS and NOTHVS written in the shape of three boats, NOTHVS twice | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) | ||||
CIL: | 10532 | ||||
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | Vibidi |
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Translation: | Of Vibidius (?) OR Vibidi(us...?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) |
CIL: | 10537 |
Graffito: | ovas EVCL E VA M X P vectat |
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Translation: | You rejoice (...other letters here...) it carries. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) |
CIL: | 10539 |
Graffito: | P P P redire si minus innecteb(is?) et te [---] |
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Translation: | To return, to return, if (I? he? she?) was not entangling (being entangled?) ... and you... |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) |
CIL: | 10542 |
Graffito: | 〈:textus non legitur〉 |
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Translation: | (Incomprehensible series of characters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Fabric (IV.19) |
CIL: | 10554b |
Graffito: | C(aius) Ostius (:Hostius) |
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Translation: | Gaius Hostius (here, pronounced Ostius) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10558 |
Graffito: | eribus (:heribus) miscella |
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Translation: | a mish-mash |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) |
CIL: | 10604b |
Graffito: | ((:basis columnae)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | column base |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Other |
Graffito: | ((:basis columnae)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | column base |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Other |
Graffito: | Hic amor sapiet |
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Translation: | Here love will be wise | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Cardo IV (V.1-9) | |||
CIL: | 10562 |
Graffito: | Quid |
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Translation: | What | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | Cardo IV (V.1-9) | |||||
CIL: | 10563b |
Graffito: | Eueno |
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Translation: | to Euenus(?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Taberna of Priapus (IV.17) |
CIL: | 10549 |
Graffito: | Ṇicanor ovas̲ |
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Translation: | Nicanor (...?) | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) | |||
CIL: | 10603 |
Graffito: | MAL |
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Translation: | M(arcus) A(---) L(---?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Cardo IV (V.1-9) |
CIL: | 10563c |
Graffito: | CLXX |
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Translation: | 170 | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | House of the Bicentenary (V.15) | ||||
CIL: | 10571 |
Graffito: | Q(uintus) ++++++++ |
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Translation: | Quintus (...other text illegible) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10583a |
Graffito: | [---] DIII VII |
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Translation: | (series of letters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10586c |
Graffito: | [Ὀ]ν̲έ̲ϲ̲ι̲μ̲ο̲ϲ̲ |
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Translation: | Onesimus (. . .) | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) | |||
CIL: | 10598 |
Graffito: | R̲ |
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Translation: | R(?). Paris, you love |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Black Salon (VI.13) |
CIL: | 10607 |
Graffito: | Ἄρτος |
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Translation: | Cake (or loaf of bread). (symbol). MME. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Two Atria (VI.29) |
CIL: | 10612 |
Graffito: | Bucolus |
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Translation: | Bucolus | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | House of the Gem (InsulaOrientalisI.1) | |||
CIL: | 10620 |
Graffito: | f̣eliter (:feliciter) |
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Translation: | Good luck! | ||||
Description of Drawing (English): | FELICITER written in the shape of a boat | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) | ||||
CIL: | 10622 | ||||
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | HIMME |
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Translation: | (untranslateable series of letters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10639 |
Graffito: | 〈:textus non legitur〉 |
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Translation: | (Incomprehensible series of characters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Fabric (IV.19) |
CIL: | 10555a |
Graffito: | V Bombycion (:Βομβύκιον) |
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Translation: | Bombycion sucks |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10628 |
Graffito: | Fuibus (:Phoebus) |
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Translation: | Phoebus - May you fall ill. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10631 |
Graffito: | IIIIIII |
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Translation: | 7 | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | ||||
CIL: | 10653b |
Graffito: | Charca miam (:meam?), Sira (:Syra?) |
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Translation: | (unknown meaning) | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | ||
CIL: | 10648 |
Graffito: | Silentiolus |
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Translation: | Silentiolus | ||||
Description of Drawing (English): | name SILENTIOUS written in the shape of a boat | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | ||||
CIL: | 10655a | ||||
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII |
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Translation: | 20 | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | Wineshop of Antigonus (InsulaOrientalisII.9) | ||||
CIL: | 10663b |
Graffito: | Septembr(es) |
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Translation: | On the third day before the Ides of September, (I spent) one denarius and eight asses for a tunic. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Shop of the Gem-cutter (InsulaOrientalisII.10) |
CIL: | 10664 |
Graffito: | ((:caput gladiatoris ad sin. versum et galea armatum)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | head of a gladiator with helmet, facing left |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Sewer Access (WithinWalls.ww3) |
CIL: | 10673 |
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | Duo sodales hic fuerunt, et, cum diu malum |
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Translation: | Two friends were here, and they had a servant named Epaphroditus who was terrible at everything for the whole time, so they finally kicked him out. (Then?) they spent 105 1/2 sestertii most delightfully when they had sex. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) |
CIL: | 10675 |
Graffito: | ILASV (:Hilarus?) |
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Translation: | Hilarus |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Black Salon (VI.13) |
CIL: | 10609 |
Graffito: | Mortus (:Mortuus) |
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Translation: | Symphorus is dead | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) | ||
CIL: | 10680 |
Graffito: | omnibus Salinensi v[---] |
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Translation: | To all the Salinenses... |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) |
CIL: | 10690 |
Graffito: | Phyl va(le) |
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Translation: | Goodbye, Phyllis. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) |
CIL: | 10692 |
Graffito: | Q(uintus) M[---]ANTV[---] |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10630 |
Graffito: | ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘ |
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Translation: | Beginning of Greek alphabet |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Upstairs apartment (V.18) |
CIL: | 10709 |
Graffito: | A̲B̲CDEF̲G̲H̲I̲K̲ |
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Translation: | (Beginning of an alphabet) | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | House of the Two Atria (VI.29) | |||
CIL: | 10712 |
Graffito: | XVII k(alendas), X k(alendas), VII id(us) |
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Translation: | 17 days before the Kalends, 10 days before the Kalends, 7 days before the Ides |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Inn (III.19) |
CIL: | 10510 |
Graffito: | Mus |
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Translation: | Mus (personal name) OR mouse |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Screen/Partition (III.11) |
CIL: | 10498c |
Graffito: | ΑΒΓΔΕ |
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Translation: | Beginning of Greek alphabet |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Mosaic Atrium (IV.2) |
CIL: | 10708 |
Graffito: | IIIIIIIIIIII |
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Translation: | 12 | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Wineshop of Antigonus (InsulaOrientalisII.9) | |||
CIL: | 10663d |
Graffito: | Echio · va(le) |
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Translation: | Goodbye, Echio. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10643b |
Graffito: | Romu(lus) |
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Translation: | Romu(lus?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10559 |
Graffito: | [---]at veniat |
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Translation: | ...let him/her come. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Shop (InsulaOrientalisII.16) |
CIL: | 10669 |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria cum crista ad dext.)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet with crest facing right | ||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | ||||||
CIL: | 10711 | ||||||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:gladiator, murmillo galea et scuto armatus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator, murmillo type with helmet and shield |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | va(le?) |
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Translation: | Greetings . . . to Isidorus(?). 9 |
Description of Drawing (English): | head of a man |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Decumanus Inferior |
CIL: | 10493 |
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria cum crista ad dext.)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet with crest facing right | ||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | ||||||
CIL: | 10711 | ||||||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:camelus dromedarius cum cauda, lodicem gerens, ad dext. incedens)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | camel, wearing blanket, with tail, walking to the right | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | Samnite House (V.1) | ||||
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | ((:animal)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | animal |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | ((:carina navis)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | keel of ship | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) | |||||
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | ((:animal)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | animal |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | AM |
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Translation: | Am(andus?), Surus: farewell Ianua(rius?). |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Mosaic Atrium (IV.2) |
CIL: | 10513 |
Graffito: | ((:basis columnae)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | column base |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Other |
Graffito: | XI k(alendas) Febarias (:Februarias) |
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Translation: | The 11th day before the Kalends of February. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Gem (InsulaOrientalisI.1) |
CIL: | 10617 |
Graffito: | C(aius) Iunius |
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Translation: | Gaius Iunius | ||||
Description of Drawing (English): | name CAIUS IUNIUS written in the shape of a boat | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | ||||
CIL: | 10652 | ||||
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria cum crista)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet with crest facing right | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | |||||
CIL: | 10711 | |||||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:phallus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | phallus |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) |
CIL: | 10711 |
Drawing Category: | Erotic images |
Graffito: | ((:navis)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | boat |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | ((:scaena erotica)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | erotic scene |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Argus (II.2) |
Drawing Categories: | Erotic images , Human figures |
Graffito: | ((:cervus a viro laqueo captus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | stag captured by a man with a rope |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Categories: | Other , Animals |
Graffito: | ((:cervus a cane assultatus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | stag attacked by dog |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | Φάβ(ιος) |
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Translation: | Fab(ius) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Bicentenary (V.15) |
CIL: | 10574b |
Graffito: | GENT[--]RR[---] |
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Translation: | (series of letters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10586b |
Graffito: | IIII P(ublius) Quin(tilius?) |
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Translation: | 4 Publius Quin(tilius?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Inn (III.19) |
CIL: | 10512 |
Graffito: | I |
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Translation: | 1 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Skeleton (III.3) |
CIL: | 10495b |
Graffito: | [A]ve Fausta s(alutem) |
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Translation: | Greetings, Fausta! |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) |
CIL: | 10704 |
Graffito: | ΔΕΖΗ |
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Translation: | (Part of the Greek alphabet) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10715 |
Graffito: | Ìn curia {Aus} Augustiana |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | So-called College of the Augustales (Curia) (VI.21) |
Graffito: | Arrius |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | So-called College of the Augustales (Curia) (VI.21) |
Graffito: | Iulaiam (:Iuliam?) |
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Translation: | To Julia, mistress |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Granianus (InsulaOrientalisI.1a) |
CIL: | 10646 |
Graffito: | XI |
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Translation: | 11 | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) | |||
CIL: | 10546b |
Graffito: | CELE |
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Translation: | (Incomprehensible series of characters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Fabric (IV.19) |
CIL: | 10556a |
Graffito: | Mode̲r̲atus̲ |
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Translation: | Moderatus | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | House of the Two Atria (VI.29) | ||||
CIL: | 10616 |
Graffito: | NO |
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Translation: | NO |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10625a |
Graffito: | LXXII |
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Translation: | 72 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Granianus (InsulaOrientalisI.1a) |
CIL: | 10647 |
Graffito: | Cunei |
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Translation: | Wedges |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Upper Aula (InsulaOrientalisII.19) |
CIL: | 10670a |
Graffito: | ΜΝΞΟΠΡϹΤΥΦΧΨΩ |
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Translation: | Second half of Greek alphabet |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10710 |
Graffito: | M |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Cardo IV (V.1-9) |
CIL: | 10484 |
Graffito: | IIII |
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Translation: | 4 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Wineshop of Antigonus (InsulaOrientalisII.9) |
CIL: | 10663e |
Graffito: | ΑΒΓΔ |
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Translation: | (Beginning of an alphabet) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10716 |
Graffito: | IVIIRIIHIIRI |
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Translation: | (untranslateable series of letters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10627 |
Graffito: | ((:caput viri galeati)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | head of man wearing helmet |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Decumanus Maximus |
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
Graffito: | ((:phallus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | phallus |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) |
CIL: | 10535 |
Drawing Category: | Erotic images |
Graffito: | ((:duae lanternae)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | two lanterns |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Bicentenary (V.15) |
Drawing Category: | Other |
Graffito: | Albinus |
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Translation: | Albinus |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10633 |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | |||||
CIL: | 10711 | |||||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) |
CIL: | 10711 |
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:gallus cum crista alisque)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | rooster with comb and wings | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | Samnite House (V.1) | ||||
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | ((:cervus stans)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | standing stag |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) |
CIL: | 10600 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | CVEN |
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Translation: | to whom in . . . |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10586d |
Graffito: | CELES (?) |
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Translation: | (... other letters here...) Cossutius(?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Fabric (IV.19) |
CIL: | 10556b |
Graffito: | Vitalio |
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Translation: | Vitalio... (more confusing text here). | ||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||||
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) | ||||||
CIL: | 10693 |
Graffito: | 〈:ad perpendiculum〉 |
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Translation: | For the numen (divine will). |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10641 |
Graffito: | IANV |
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Translation: | Ianu(arius?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Taberna (IV.10) |
CIL: | 10524 |
Graffito: | VERIII |
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Translation: | Verus(?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Bicentenary (V.15) |
CIL: | 10573 |
Graffito: | XVII |
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Translation: | 17 | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | ||
CIL: | 10653a |
Graffito: | ΚΛΗΒΙΧΝ |
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Translation: | (series of Greek letters) | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) | |||||
CIL: | 10623 |
Graffito: | Mercurius |
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Translation: | Mercurius |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Taberna of Priapus (IV.17) |
CIL: | 10551 |
Graffito: | Assis IIIIHIINII |
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Translation: | Coins (...series of characters) / 330 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Taberna (IV.10) |
CIL: | 10523c |
Graffito: | ((:figura hominis)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | figure of a man |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 (nota) |
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
Graffito: | ((:cervus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | stag |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | [- - -]o |
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Translation: | ... (in the) forum (?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10629 |
Graffito: | ((:basis columnae cum parte columnae ornamentae et fortasse scalae)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | base and part of a decorated column and perhaps a ladder |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Other |
Graffito: | XXVIIII |
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Translation: | 29 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Taberna of Priapus (IV.17) |
CIL: | 10550 |
Graffito: | Fatuus |
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Translation: | Idiot | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) | |||
CIL: | 10601 |
Graffito: | ((:vir ad sin. prospiciens)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | man facing left |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10586 |
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
Graffito: | ((:caput viri barbati)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | head of bearded man |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Taberna of Priapus (IV.17) |
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
Graffito: | Hyacinthus hic fu̲i̲t̲ |
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Translation: | Hyacinthus was here, his Verginia... | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | Taberna (IV.10) | ||||
CIL: | 10525 |
Graffito: | Croca̲ḷe |
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Translation: | Bearded Crocale | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | Taberna of Priapus (IV.17) | |||||
CIL: | 10547 |
Graffito: | ((:basis columnae)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | column base |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Other |
Graffito: | ((:vir cervum equitans)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | man riding stag |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Categories: | Human figures , Animals |
Graffito: | ((:galea gladiatoria cum crista ad dext.)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator helmet with crest facing right | |||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||
Findspot: | House of the Grand Portal (V.35) | |||||
CIL: | 10711 | |||||
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:basis columnae)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | column base |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Other |
Graffito: | ((:gladiator gladio et scuto longo armatus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | gladiator armed with sword and long shield |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Argus (II.2) |
Drawing Category: | Gladiators |
Graffito: | ((:cervus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | stag |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | ROM |
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Translation: | Rom(ulus?), or Rom(a?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Upstairs apartment (V.18) |
CIL: | 10576 |
Graffito: | [---]N · LA |
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Translation: | (series of letters) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | 10585 |
Graffito: | Extan[+1?+] pisu |
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Translation: | There exist (...other letters here...) ...fourth(?) not five |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10632b |
Graffito: | [+1?+]anthi |
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Translation: | Cloth for (literally of) Xanthus: weft - 9 (units by weight), warp - 7 (units), 8 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Granianus (InsulaOrientalisI.1a) |
CIL: | 10645 |
Graffito: | ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞ̲ΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ |
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Translation: | (The whole alphabet in Greek) | |||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||||
Findspot: | Wineshop of Antigonus (InsulaOrientalisII.9) | |||||||
CIL: | 10717 |
Graffito: | S IIIII |
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Translation: | S 5 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) |
CIL: | 10651a |
Graffito: | TVS lusor |
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Translation: | (Ius)tus, the game player |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) |
CIL: | 10654b |
Graffito: | IINIIDII (:c̣inaede) |
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Translation: | Pervert! | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | |||
CIL: | 10654d |
Graffito: | XXXIXXVVV |
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Translation: | (Series of numbers) | ||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | ||||
CIL: | 10654e |
Graffito: | Silentiolus |
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Translation: | Silentiolus | |||
Description of Drawing (English): | name SILENTIOUS written in the shape of a boat | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | (InsulaOrientalisII.2-3) | |||
CIL: | 10655b | |||
Drawing Category: | Boats |
Graffito: | ((:caput acutum cum nasone longo et corona, gryllus?)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | pointed head with long nose and garland wreath, caricature? | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) | |||
CIL: | 10676 | |||
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
Graffito: | Vivaniu̲ṣ Aṭer ụḅịque |
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Translation: | Vivanius Ater everywhere | |||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||||||
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) | |||||||
CIL: | 10686 |
Graffito: | Modesti |
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Translation: | of Modestus |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) |
CIL: | 10691 |
Graffito: | Sabin(a) |
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Translation: | Sabina, Sabina | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | Decumanus Maximus |
Graffito: | K(alends) III Iulias |
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Translation: | Three days before the Kalends of July |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Wooden Shrine (V.31) |
CIL: | Varone 2000 |
Graffito: | Soli |
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Translation: | Alone... |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Gem (InsulaOrientalisI.1) |
CIL: | 10621 |
Graffito: | Vinum acceptum |
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Translation: | Wine (was) received from the master seven days before the Ides of April. | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | House of Neptune and Amphitrite (V.7) | ||
CIL: | 10565 |
Graffito: | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII |
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Translation: | 19 | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Wineshop of Antigonus (InsulaOrientalisII.9) | |||
CIL: | 10663c |
Graffito: | CAI |
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Translation: | Gaius! (vocative... or abbreviated nominative, or set of initials) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10636 |
Graffito: | AḶṢ |
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Translation: | A(ulus) L(---) S(---?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10557 |
Graffito: | ΛΙΑΒΙΧΤΛ |
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Translation: | (series of Greek letters) | ||||||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||||||
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) | ||||||
CIL: | 10624 |
Graffito: | 〈:ad perpendiculum〉 |
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Translation: | Infrequently, all the lullabies(?)... |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Black Salon (VI.13) |
CIL: | 10608 |
Graffito: | Saco(mata?) XX |
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Translation: | Counterweights(?) 20 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Central Baths (VI.1,7-10) |
CIL: | 10593 |
Graffito: | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII |
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Translation: | 21 | |||
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City: | Herculaneum | |||
Findspot: | Wineshop of Antigonus (InsulaOrientalisII.9) | |||
CIL: | 10663a |
Graffito: | Ocaeanus (:Oceanus) |
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Translation: | (...) Oceanus |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Upstairs apartment (V.18) |
CIL: | 10578 |
Graffito: | Myrine mari |
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Translation: | Myrine to the sea (?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Painted Papyrus (IV.8) |
CIL: | 10521 |
Graffito: | Venimus, |
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Translation: | We came! We came here desiring, much more do we desire to go |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10640 |
Graffito: | POLY |
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Translation: | Poly(bius?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2) |
CIL: | 10637 |
Graffito: | 〈:columna I〉 |
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | House of Argus (II.2) | ||
CIL: | 2513 |
Graffito: | Augu |
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Translation: | (Something about augury or the emperor?) |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Grand Taberna (IV.15-16) |
CIL: | 10536 |
Graffito: | VIII k(alendas) Iulias |
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Translation: | Eight days before the Kalends of July |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Suburban Baths (OutsideWalls.ow2) |
CIL: | 10683 |
Graffito: | Va(le) va(le) |
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Translation: | Goodbye, goodbye |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Ramp (OutsideWalls.ow1) |
CIL: | 10706 |
Graffito: | Se(xtus) Porcius |
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Translation: | Se(xtus) Porcius / s s |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Bronze Herm (III.16) |
CIL: | 10506 |
Graffito: | Debere |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of Argus (II.2) |
CIL: | 2513a |
Graffito: | ((:cervus a cane assultatus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | stag attacked by dog |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |
Graffito: | AB |
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City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Upstairs apartment (V.18) |
CIL: | 10709 |
Graffito: | ((:cervus a cane assultatus)) |
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Description of Drawing (English): | stag attacked by dog |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | House of the Stags (IV.21) |
CIL: | 10561 |
Drawing Category: | Animals |