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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: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) | |||
CIL: | 10676 | |||
Drawing Category: | Human figures |
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: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10675 |
Graffito: | XII |
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Translation: | 12 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10682 |
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: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10676 |
Graffito: | Euhodụs̲ |
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Translation: | Euhodus | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) | ||
CIL: | 10679 |
Graffito: | Mortus (:Mortuus) |
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Translation: | Hercolanius is dead. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | Varone 2000 |
Graffito: | [F]usci Cilix |
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Translation: | Cilix, (slave) of Fuscus. Cilix. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10681 |
Graffito: | Nuc (:nuces?) 〈:vacat〉 biber(es) XIIII (assibus) |
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Translation: | nuts, drinks(?) - 14 (small coins, probably - this number appears to be the price); pork rinds - 3; three (loaves of) bread - 51; three cutlets - 12; four thyme-flavored sausages - 8 |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10674 |
Graffito: | Mortus (:Mortuus) |
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Translation: | Symphorus is dead | ||
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City: | Herculaneum | ||
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) | ||
CIL: | 10680 |
Graffito: | Mortus (:Mortuus) |
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Translation: | Deii(us) is dead(?). |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | Varone 2000 |
Graffito: | VIII k(alendas) Iulias |
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Translation: | Eight days before the Kalends of July |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10683 |
Graffito: | Apelles cubicularius |
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Translation: | Apelles, the bedroom attendant, with Dexter, (slave) of Caesar, ate lunch here most agreeably and also had sex. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10677 |
Graffito: | Apelles Mus cum fratre Dextro |
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Translation: | Apelles Mus (was here) with his brother Dexter. We had a great time (literally, lovingly had intercourse), twice with two girls. |
City: | Herculaneum |
Findspot: | Terme Suburbane (VII.16.a) |
CIL: | 10678 |