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VII Idus Sep[tem]bres
Q(uintus) Postumius
rogavit
A(ulum) Attium
pedicarim (:pedicarem)

Symbol	Meaning
[abc]	Letters once present, now missing due to damage to the surface or support
a(bc)	Abbreviation; text was never written out; expanded by editor
(:abc)	Gives standard spelling to explain non-standard text in an inscription (used by EDR and AGP)

Translation	On the 7th day before the Ides of September, Quintus Postumius asked Aulus Attius, Can I screw you?
Findspot	Pompeii, Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1) Location metadata ➜
Precise Location	col. CXVII, stria 8
Language	Latin
Writing Style	Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus	Textus et mensurae secundum (2). Contulerunt Benefiel, Sypniewski et Zimmermann Damer (AGP) a. 2019; exiguissima vestigia remanent. v. 5: (ut) PEDICAR(E)M (1); (ut?) PEDICARIM pro pedicarem (2); PEDICARIM pro pedica(ve)rim (3), pro p(a)edicarem (4) In eadem columna EDR167506 et EDR168105.
Bibliography	Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 301, nr. 391 con apografo (1) CIL 04, 08805, con apografo (2) V. Väänänen, Le latin vulgaire des inscriptions pompéiennes (3 ed.), Berlin 1966, p. 40 (3) A. Varone, Erotica pompeiana: Love inscriptions on the walls of Pompeii, Roma 2001, p. 135-136 (4) J. Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary, Baltimore 1990, p. 123-125 (5) http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR167507 (6)
Link to EDR	#EDR167507
Suggested Citation	AGP-EDR167507, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR167507> [accessed: 05 Dec 2025]
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