Drawing of two birds

((:aves oppositae))


Description of Drawing (English): Drawing of two birds facing each other
Findspot: Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Precise Location: col. XXVII, stria 15
Drawing Category: Animals
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus et mensurae secundum (3), contulerunt Zimmermann Damer et Benefiel (AGP) a. 2019.
Mensurae utriusque paris avium, alt.: 2, lat.: 6 cm

Titulus descriptus sic: tre volte lo schematico disegnino di due volatili affrontati (1); ter est hic paucis lineis descriptum avium (gallorum?) oppositarum par.(2); drei Hahnenkampfpaare (3)
Tria paria avium, unusquisque super alterum in eadem stria; duo paria nunc tantum vestigia sunt, sed tertium par adhuc videtur (4).

In eadem columna: EDR127298 (stria 5), EDR128014 (stria 8), EDR127299 (striae 12-16)
Bibliography: Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 258 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08599 (nota) (2)
M. Langner, Antike Graffitizeichnungen: Motive, Gestaltung Und Bedeutung. Wiesbaden 2001, n. 1680-1682 (Hahnenkampf) (3)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR128294 (4)
Link to EDR: #EDR128294
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR128294, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR128294> [accessed: 01 Dec 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Amy Nizolek, Rebecca Benefiel

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

Last Revision: 2022-07-12

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