Greetings to Sava

Propero vale mea Sava
fac me ames

Translation: I am hurrying. Farewell, my sweetie(?). See to it that you love me.
Findspot: Pompeii, Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
Location metadata ➜
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus secundum (4), mensurae secundum (12). Contulerunt DiBiasie-Sammons et Helms (AGP) a. 2019.
v. 1: PROPERO abest (1)-(3), PROPERO, alia cuspide exaratum, fortasse alienum (10).
v. 1: VALE MESALA (1)
SAVA pro SVAVA? in indicibus cognominum, p. 753 (4)
SAVA ut cognomen (5)-(7)(9), fortasse Celticum (6); aut, aliter, ex SAVIARI vel SAVIVM ut vox blanda (8)(11)
Ante EDR167827
Pone EDR167834
Sub EDR161769, EDR167689
Supra EDR167707
Bibliography: C. Wordsworth, Inscriptiones Pompeianae; or Specimens and Facsimilies of Ancient Inscriptions Discovered on the Walls of Buildings at Pompeii, London 1837, p. 23 (1)
Jahrb. Ver. Altertum, 13, 1848, p. 110 (O. Jahn) (2)
R. Garrucci, Graffiti de Pompéi: inscriptions et gravures tracées au stylet, recueillies et interprétées, Paris 1856, p. 89, tav. XXVI 48, con apografo (3)
CIL 04, 02414 (4)
H. Geist and W. Krenkel, Pompeianische Wandinschriften (2 ed.), Munich 1960, p. 54, nr. 22 (5)
Neuphilol. Mitt., 66, 1965, p. 459 (I. Kajanto) (6)
A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome 2002, p. 40 (7)
Latin vulgaire - Latin tardif VIII. Actes du VIIIe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif. Oxford, 6-9 septembre 2006, Hildesheim 2008, p. 66 (H. Solin) (8)
V. Hunink, Glücklich ist dieser Ort! 1000 Graffiti aus Pompeji, Stuttgart 2011, p. 274, nr. 806 (9)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in C.I.L. vol. IV collecti sunt, Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, p. 420, con foto (10)
Veikko Väänänen, latiniste et romaniste: un bilan, Helsinki 2012, p. 39 (H. Solin) (11)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR161742 (12)
Link to EDR: #EDR161742
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR161742, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR161742> [accessed: 25 Apr 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Kyle Helms

Last Revision: 2019-08-14

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