Graffito listing food and prices

pane(m) a(ssibus) II
purm(entarium) a(ssibus) III
oleum a(sse) I
OXC a(ssibus) IIII
vinum a(sse) s(emis)
casium (:caseum) a(sse) s(emis)
OM+ a(ssibus) IIII
vinum a(sse) s(emis)
XI K(alendas) ac(ce)pi ((denarium)) I
vinum a(sse) I
porcin(am) a(sse) I
VIINVM (:vinum) a(sse) s(emis)
casiûm (:caseum) a(sse) s(emis)
L(ucius) Gavi+ IIII s(emis)
vinum a(sse) s(emis)
carn(em) a(sse) I
vin[u]m a(sse) I


Translation: Bread - 2 asses (small coins), porridge - 3 asses, oil - 1 as, OXC - 4 asses, wine - 1/2 as, cheese - 1/2 as, OM+ - 4 asses, wine - 1/2 as. 11 days before the Kalends I received 1 denarius (large coin). Wine - 1 as, pork (cutlet?) - 1 as, wine - 1/2 as, cheese - 1/2 as. Lucius Gavius - 4 1/2. Wine - 1/2 as, meat - 1 as, wine - 1 as.
Findspot: Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Precise Location: col. XVIII, stria 13
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus secundum (2), mensurae secundum apographum apud (2). Periit (7). Contulerunt et non invenerunt Sypniewski et Benefiel (AGP) a. 2019; lapsu tectorii periit.
v. 3: PVRM per PVLM = pulmentarium o, per sincope, pultarium (1)
v. 4: textus omittur (1), non expedivi (2)
v. 7: OMDV(?) III (1), non expedivi (2)
v. 14: L GAVIR(?) III S (1), L. GAVI (denarios?) IIII vel VIII S(emis) (accepi?) (2)
v. 16: CARV A 1 (1), CARN(em) A(ssis) I (2); CARV scriptum est, sed fortasse una linea litterae N (pro CARN) caret (7)
Infra EDR127828 (Numina Di)
Permulti tituli, quorum multi imagines sunt, in hac columna inveniuntur: EDR167447, EDR167574, EDR128290 et EDR167446 (stria 4); EDR127405, EDR167451, EDR167453 (stria 5); EDR168101, EDR167581, et EDR127191 (stria 7); EDR127829, EDR127830, EDR127831, EDR128660 (stria 8); EDR128661 et EDR128733 (stria 9); EDR128662 (stria 14); EDR127081 (stria 15); EDR128738 et EDR167583 (stria 16); EDR128663 (stria 10, 12, 15-16, 17)
Bibliography: Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 252, nr. 62 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08566b con apografo (2)
Rev. Num., 6 ser., 27, 1972, p. 87 (M. Corbier) (3)
Food and History, 5, 2007, pgs. 181-82 (N. Monteix (4)
C. Holleran, Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Latin Republic and the Principate, Oxford 2012, p. 210 (5)
Rev. Belg. Num., 91, 2013, p. 162 (M. Bailey) (6)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR128734 (7)
Link to EDR: #EDR128734
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR128734, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR128734> [accessed: 13 Oct 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Caroline Sutherland, Holly Sypniewski

Contributors: H. Sypniewski, H. Busby, C. Hartline, B. Wright, M. Yorio

Last Revision: 2021-03-10

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