Graffito

Satur · (:Satyr?) noli · cunnum · lingere
extra · porta · (:portam) set (:sed) intra · porta · (:portam)
rogat te Arpocra · (:Harpocras) ut sibi lingas mentula · (:mentulam)
〈:infra, eadem manu〉
at fellator quid


Findspot: Pompeii, Casa dei Cuspii/Casa di Cuspius Pansa/Epidius Sabinus (IX.1.22)
Location metadata ➜
Language: Latin
Writing Style: Graffito/incised
Apparatus Criticus: Textus secundum (2). Periit (5)
v. 1: SATVR pro Satyr (10) vel Saturus (5)
v. 3: ARTOCRA ̅ VT SIIBI LINGEAS MENTULAM, scriptum ut IIIIENTVLAIIII (1), ARPOGRA (3)(4).

Versus metri Anacreontei? (6) De versu autem Anacreonteo agi nequit. (5)
Interpuncta ut - scripta sunt e.g. Satur- noli- cunnum- lingere.
Bibliography: CIL 04, 02400 (1), cf. p. 221 (2), cf. p. 272 (3), cf. p. 465 (4), cf. p. 1764 (5)
Rend. Pont. Accad. Arch. 28, 1954/55, p. 35 (A.W. Van Buren) (6)
WZ Rostock, 29, 1980, p. 83 (W. Krenkel) (7)
WZ Rostock, 30, 1981, p. 53 (W. Krenkel) (8)
J.N. Adams, Latin Sexual Vocabulary, London 1982, p. 135 (9)
A. Varone, Erotica Pompeiana: iscrizioni d'amore sui muri di Pompei, Roma 1994, p. 80 (10)
C. Williams, Roman Homosexuality, Oxford/New York 1999, p. 200 (11)
P. Guzzo, V. Scarano Ussani, Ex corpore lucrum facere: la prostituzione nell'antica Pompei, Roma 2009, pp. 126-27, 130, 134, 150 (12)
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, Oxford 2014, p. 513 (C. Williams) (13)
Ancient Sex: New Essays, Columbus 2015, p. 243 (D. Kamen, S. Levin-Richardson) (14)
http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR192780 (15)
Link to EDR: #EDR192780
Suggested Citation: AGP-EDR192780, The Ancient Graffiti Project, <https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR192780> [accessed: 23 Nov 2024]
Contributions:

Editor: Rebecca Benefiel

Principal Contributor: Bryce Hammer

Last Revision: 2024-06-09

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