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    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus a cane assultatus))

    Description of Drawing (English): stag attacked by dog
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus))

    Description of Drawing (English): stag
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus))

    Description of Drawing (English): stag
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a camel

    Graffito:

    ((:camelus dromedarius cum cauda, lodicem gerens, ad dext. incedens))

    Description of Drawing (English): camel, wearing blanket, with tail, walking to the right
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: Samnite House (V.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a rooster

    Graffito:

    ((:gallus cum crista alisque))

    Description of Drawing (English): rooster with comb and wings
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: Samnite House (V.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus))

    Description of Drawing (English): stag
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a monster (?)

    Graffito:

    ((:gryllus feminae cum cornibus, unguibus, dentibus, et alis, falcem aut baculum tenentis))

    Description of Drawing (English): caricature of a woman with horns, claws, teeth, and wings, holding a scythe or staff
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: Samnite House (V.1)
    Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals

    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus a viro laqueo captus et a cane assultatus))

    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

    Drawing of a stag and a man

    Graffito:

    ((:vir cervum equitans))

    Description of Drawing (English): man riding stag
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals

    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus a cane assultatus))

    Description of Drawing (English): stag attacked by dog
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus stans))

    Description of Drawing (English): standing stag
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: Central Baths (VI.1,7-10)
    CIL: 10600
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of an animal

    Graffito:

    ((:animal))

    Description of Drawing (English): animal
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of an animal

    Graffito:

    ((:animal))

    Description of Drawing (English): animal
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a stag and a dog

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus a cane assultatus))

    Description of Drawing (English): stag attacked by dog
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
    CIL: 10561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a stag

    Graffito:

    ((:cervus a viro laqueo captus))

    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

    Graffito:

    Mim̂us̲
    BCN
    bineis (:βινεῖς)
    ((:animal))

    Description of Drawing (English): Mimus BCN do you drink ((:animal))
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Casa degli Epigrammi (V.1.18)
    CIL: 4060
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird?

    Graffito:

    ((:psittaci, ut videtur, figura))

    Description of Drawing (English): ((:drawing of a bird? parrot?))
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Lupanare (VII.12.18-20)
    CIL: 2248
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:equus infrenatus ad d.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse facing right
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: 2414
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8597
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bull?

    Graffito:

    ((:taurus capite cornuto ad. d. incedens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bull with horns moving to the right
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: p. 900, s. n.
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis parva ad sin. folium carpens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Small bird facing left, pecking at a leaf
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8791
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis in saxo stans))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bird standing on a rock
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8635
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Graffito naming Castor (person or god?)

    Graffito:

    Castor
    ((:equus))

    Translation: Castor
    Description of Drawing (English): ((:horse))
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Terme del Sarno (VIII.2.17-23)
    CIL: 4879
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of an animal

    Graffito:

    ((:quadrupes ad. d. erectus))

    Description of Drawing (English): Rearing four-legged animal, facing right
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8544
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8733
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of two birds

    Graffito:

    ((:aves oppositae))

    Description of Drawing (English): Drawing of two birds facing each other
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8599
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of an animal

    Graffito:

    ((:quadrupes ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Four-legged animal facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Graffito

    Graffito:

    I S dequi
    ((:animal))
    ((:tria hominum capita)) ((:cervus))

    Translation: (Series of letters, with several drawings below)
    Description of Drawing (English): Animal, heads of three people, and a deer
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Casa di Caecilius Iucundus (V.1.23)
    CIL: 4075
    Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals

    Drawing of two birds

    Graffito:

    ((:duae aves ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Two birds facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8561
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:Equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a goose

    Graffito:

    ((:anser stans))

    Description of Drawing (English): Standing goose
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8611
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis externa in arboris ramo stans))
    BO

    Translation: BO
    Description of Drawing (English): Bird (partridge?) standing on a tree branch
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8573
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird?

    Graffito:

    ((:avis? ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bird(?) facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8639
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of two beetles(?)

    Graffito:

    ((:duo scarabei? rotundi, unus ad d. quattuor pedibus incedens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Two beetles(?), one moving to the right on four legs
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8733
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Partial drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:equi caput et thorax))

    Description of Drawing (English): Head and chest of a horse
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8597
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Graffito

    Graffito:

    ((:equus ad sin. incedens))

    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: (I.8.7)
    CIL: 8215
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:Equus ad d.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Horse facing right
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Multiple drawings atop each other (bird? boat? phallus)

    Graffito:

    ((:avis?)) ((:avis))
    ((:phallus))

    Description of Drawing (English): Boat? Bird? Phallus
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Categories: Erotic images , Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:caput equi ad d.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Head of a horse facing right
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a fish

    Graffito:

    ((:piscis ad d.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Fish facing right
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of fish

    Graffito:

    ((:duo pisces ad sin. conversi))

    Description of Drawing (English): Two fish facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:Equus ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Horse running to the left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a fish

    Graffito:

    ((:piscis))

    Description of Drawing (English): A fish
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Partial drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:caput et artus anteriores equi ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Head and front legs of a horse
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8597
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:equus))

    Description of Drawing (English): Horse
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: 2448
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of an animal

    Graffito:

    ((:animal ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Animal facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8524
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of an animal?

    Graffito:

    ((:quadrupes?))

    Description of Drawing (English): Four-legged animal?
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing featuring several figures and an animal, possible theatrical scene

    Graffito:

    ((:vir petasatus et alter baculum tenens (=Mercurius?), animal (taurus?) eos prosequens, et duae figurae (?) procul))

    Description of Drawing (English): A male figure wearing a hat, another holding a staff (=Mercury?), an animal (bull?) chasing them, and two figures in the background
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals

    Drawing of a bull

    Graffito:

    ((:taurus ad d.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bull facing right
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8544
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of two birds

    Graffito:

    ((:duae aves oppositae, ciconiae?))

    Description of Drawing (English): Two birds facing each other (storks?)
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: p. 899 s.n.
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse wearing fancy decorations

    Graffito:

    ((:Equus ornatus et infrenatus ad sin. currens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse wearing decorations and running to the left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawings of two birds

    Graffito:

    ((:avis ad d.))

    〈:vacat, 7.5 cm altitudine〉

    ((:avis ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing right and (7.5 cm below) bird facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8527
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a boat and fish

    Graffito:

    ((:navis instructa gubernaculo et velis in quibus duo pisces magni et una avis sunt))

    Description of Drawing (English): Boat with rudder and two fish and a bird in its sails
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Categories: Boats , Animals

    Drawing of a house and an animal

    Graffito:

    ((:casulae frons cui et ad d. et ad sin. palma adiecta est et cuius portam quadrupes petit qui cornibus longis in cervi modum praeditus esse videtur))

    Description of Drawing (English): ((:front of a house flanked on the right and the left by a palm, and whose door is approached by a quadruped who seems to have long horns like a deer))
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Via dell'Abbondanza (VIII.5.1-30)
    CIL: 10212
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of an animal

    Graffito:

    ((:animal))

    Description of Drawing (English): Unknown animal
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:Equus ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Horse facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
    CIL: 8733
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a horse

    Graffito:

    ((:Equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))

    Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
    City: Pompeii
    Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
    CIL: ---
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a fish

    Graffito:

    ((:piscis))

    Description of Drawing (English): fish
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bull

    Graffito:

    ((:taurus))

    Description of Drawing (English): bull
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a cat

    Graffito:

    ((:feles))

    Description of Drawing (English): cat
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis))

    Description of Drawing (English): bird
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis))

    Description of Drawing (English): bird
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis))

    Description of Drawing (English): bird
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of stags

    Graffito:

    ((:tria animalia, cervi?))

    Description of Drawing (English): three animals, stags?
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis, olor?))

    Description of Drawing (English): long-necked bird, swam?
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a large feline

    Graffito:

    ((:feles magna, leo?))

    Description of Drawing (English): large feline, lion?
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a bird

    Graffito:

    ((:avis))

    Description of Drawing (English): bird
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a fish

    Graffito:

    ((:piscis nat ad sin.))

    Description of Drawing (English): fish swimming to the left
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals

    Drawing of a fish

    Graffito:

    ((:piscis natandus ad dext.))

    Description of Drawing (English): fish swimming to the right
    City: Smyrna
    Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
    Drawing Category: Animals