Graffito mentioning Miccio

Miccì̲ocìocìo [t]u [t]uo patri cacanti confregisti p̣ẹram Miccioni̲s statum ((:figura hominis)) cosiderate (:considerate)


Translation: Miccio-cio-cio, you broke the wallet (bag?) for your defecating father. Consider the state of Miccio!
Findspot: Pompeii, Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
Location metadata ➜
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus et mensurae secundum (9). Contulerunt DiBiasie-Sammons et Helms (AGP) a. 2019.
v. 1: [T]V [T]VO (2) ex (1), alii sequuntur.
v. 1: CIOCIO (1)(3); COCIO (2)(8) et cf. TLL s.v. COCIO (sic leg. non ciocio); CIO CIO (4); COCO pro COQUO (i.e. casus dativus) (6); veri similius est finem nominis Miccionis bis repetitam esse, fortasse lusus causa (9)
v. 1: ultima tria verba seiunguntur (5), haec verba ab altero scripta sunt (8).
Ante EDR161769
Pone EDR161911
Pone et supra EDR166493
Sub EDR166494
Supra EDR161910
Bibliography: R. Garrucci, Graffiti de Pompéi: Inscriptions et Gravures, Tracées au Stylet, Recueillies et Interprétées, Paris 1856, p. 82 con apografo, tav. XVI 4, XX 1 (1)
CIL 04, 02416 con apografo, Tab. XXXVIII 26, 25 (2), cfr. Add. p. 223 (3)
E. Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften und Verwandtes, Bonn 1910, p. 41, nr. 694 (4)
H. Geist and W. Krenkel, Pompeianische Wandinschriften (2 ed.), Munich 1960, p. 42, nr. 33 (5)
V. Hunink, Glücklich ist dieser Ort! 1000 Graffiti aus Pompeji, Stuttgart 2011, p. 274, nr. 808 (6)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in C.I.L. vol. IV collecti sunt, Imagines, Roma 2012, vol. II, p. 418, con foto (7)
Ancient Obscenities: Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, Ann Arbor 2015, p. 230 (S. Levin-Richardson) (8)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR161789 (9)
Link to EDR: #EDR161789
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR161789, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR161789> [accessed: 25 Apr 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Kyle Helms

Last Revision: 2021-06-22

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