Graffito mentioning travel

((:vela))
Antiochus
hic mansit
cum sua
cithera (:cythera)


Translation: Antiochus stayed here with his Cythera
Description of Drawing (English): Sails
Findspot: Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
Location metadata ➜
Precise Location: col. CXI, stria 10
Drawing Category: Boats
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus secundum (6) et mensurae secundum (2). Contulerunt ad imaginem a. 2018 Benefiel, Damer, Sypniewski (AGP) et Pompeiis a. 2019.
Della Corte (1)-(2) putavit hanc imaginem subligaculum gladiatoris esse et partem tituli EDR167713 (galea gladiatoria, supra), sed vere vela navis sunt. Cf. alias naves compositas litterarum EDR147717, EDR147687, EDR147916.
v. 1: textus descriptus sic: figura di gladiatore...ed il subligaculum (1); subligaculum rustice delineata (2); Segel? (4)
vv. 2-3: Litterae S in ANTIOCHUS (v. 2) et MANSIT (v.3) coniunguntur.
v. 5: CITHERA pro Cythera scriptum (2).
Infra EDR167713, EDR167948. In eadem columna EDR167712, EDR167952, EDR167951.
Bibliography: Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 299, nr. 378-379 (M. Della Corte) (1)
CIL 04, 08792b (2)
A. Varone, Erotica pompeiana: Love inscriptions on the walls of Pompeii, Roma 2001, p. 47 (3)
M. Langner, Antike Graffitizeichnungen, Wiesbaden 2001, n. 24 (Buchstabenschiff) (4)
A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL vol. IV collecti sunt: Imagines, Roma 2012, Vol. I, p. 192 (5)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR147923 (6)
Link to EDR: #EDR147923
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR147923, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR147923> [accessed: 26 Dec 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributors: Holly Sypniewski, Erika Damer, Holly Sypniewski

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

Last Revision: 2021-12-23

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