Wordplay

Mened(emerumenus)
〈:vacat〉 Mened(emerumenus)
Menedimerume(nus) (:Menedemerumenus)
Menedeme(rumenus)
Menedemer(umenus)
Menedimeru(menus) (:Menedemerumenus)
R


Translation (Variations on a word)
Findspot Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location col. XXI, striae 6-8
Language Latin
Writing Style Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus Textus secundum (3)-(4); aliter (1)-(2). Periit (4). Sypniewski et Benefiel (AGP) contulerunt ad apographum apud (2) a. 2019.
Quaesiverunt sed non invenerunt Sypniewski et Benefiel (AGP) a. 2019. Omne tectorium columnae (et quod in columnis XVI-XXI a. 1939 exstabat) nunc caret.
vv.1-6: Menedemerum(enus) (2); Sexies hic, sed numquam usque ad finem scriptum est litteris minimis nomen ludicrum (2)
v. 7: littera aut R aut A legi possit (4)
Hoc nomen bis in columna XVIII Campi ad amphitheatrum etiam videtur (EDR127829, EDR127830).
In eadem columna EDR127192, EDR127843, EDR127848, EDR127850, EDR127979, EDR167585
Bibliography Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 255, nr. 84-85 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08581 con apografo (2)
Tyche, 27, 2012, p. 105 con apografo (P. Kruschwitz, V. Campbell, and M. Nicholls) (3)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127427 (4)
Link to EDR #EDR127427
Suggested Citation AGP-EDR127427, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR127427> [accessed: 05 Dec 2025]
Contributions

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Caroline Hutchinson, Holly Sypniewski

Contributors: E. Zimmermann Damer, C. Creamer, M. Holcomb, M. P. Lewis, J. Rach

Last Revision: 2025-07-09

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