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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus))

Description of Drawing (English): stag
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a stag and a dog

Graffito:

((:cervus a cane assultatus))
Description of Drawing (English): stag attacked by dog
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of an animal

Graffito:

((:animal))
Description of Drawing (English): animal
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus stans))
Description of Drawing (English): standing stag
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: Central Baths (VI.1,7-10)
CIL: 10600
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus a cane assultatus))

Description of Drawing (English): stag attacked by dog
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a stag and a man

Graffito:

((:vir cervum equitans))
Description of Drawing (English): man riding stag
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals
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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus a cane assultatus))

Description of Drawing (English): stag attacked by dog
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of an animal

Graffito:

((:animal))
Description of Drawing (English): animal
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a camel

Graffito:

((:camelus dromedarius cum cauda, lodicem gerens, ad dext. incedens))
Description of Drawing (English): camel, wearing blanket, with tail, walking to the right
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: Samnite House (V.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus))

Description of Drawing (English): stag
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus a viro laqueo captus et a cane assultatus))

Description of Drawing (English): stag captured by a man with a rope and attacked by a dog
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals
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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus))
Description of Drawing (English): stag
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a monster (?)

Graffito:

((:gryllus feminae cum cornibus, unguibus, dentibus, et alis, falcem aut baculum tenentis))
Description of Drawing (English): caricature of a woman with horns, claws, teeth, and wings, holding a scythe or staff
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: Samnite House (V.1)
Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals
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Drawing of a stag

Graffito:

((:cervus a viro laqueo captus))

Description of Drawing (English): stag captured by a man with a rope
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: House of the Stags (IV.21)
CIL: 10561
Drawing Categories: Other , Animals
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Drawing of a rooster

Graffito:

((:gallus cum crista alisque))
Description of Drawing (English): rooster with comb and wings
City: Herculaneum
Findspot: Samnite House (V.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:caput equi ad d.))
Description of Drawing (English): Head of a horse facing right
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of fish

Graffito:

((:duo pisces ad sin. conversi))
Description of Drawing (English): Two fish facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird?

Graffito:

((:avis? ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Bird(?) facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8639
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a boat and fish

Graffito:

((:navis instructa gubernaculo et velis in quibus duo pisces magni et una avis sunt))
Description of Drawing (English): Boat with rudder and two fish and a bird in its sails
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Categories: Boats , Animals
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Drawing of two beetles(?)

Graffito:

((:duo scarabei? rotundi, unus ad d. quattuor pedibus incedens))
Description of Drawing (English): Two beetles(?), one moving to the right on four legs
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8733
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8733
Drawing Category: Animals
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Partial drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:caput et artus anteriores equi ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Head and front legs of a horse
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8597
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of an animal

Graffito:

((:quadrupes ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Four-legged animal facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))
Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:equus infrenatus ad d.))
Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse facing right
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: 2414
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a fish

Graffito:

((:piscis ad d.))
Description of Drawing (English): Fish facing right
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis in saxo stans))
Description of Drawing (English): Bird standing on a rock
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8635
Drawing Category: Animals
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Graffito

Graffito:

((:equus ad sin. incedens))
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Casa dei Quattro Stili (I.8.17)
CIL: 8215
Drawing Category: Animals
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Partial drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:equi caput et thorax))
Description of Drawing (English): Head and chest of a horse
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8597
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of an animal

Graffito:

((:animal ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Animal facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8524
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawings of two birds

Graffito:

((:avis ad d.))

〈:vacat, 7.5 cm altitudine〉

((:avis ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing right and (7.5 cm below) bird facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8527
Drawing Category: Animals
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Graffito naming Castor (person or god?)

Graffito:

Castor
((:equus))
Translation: Castor
Description of Drawing (English): ((:horse))
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Terme del Sarno (VIII.2.17-23)
CIL: 4879
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse wearing fancy decorations

Graffito:

((:Equus ornatus et infrenatus ad sin. currens))
Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse wearing decorations and running to the left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:Equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))
Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of an animal?

Graffito:

((:quadrupes?))
Description of Drawing (English): Four-legged animal?
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))
Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a house and an animal

Graffito:

((:casulae frons cui et ad d. et ad sin. palma adiecta est et cuius portam quadrupes petit qui cornibus longis in cervi modum praeditus esse videtur))
Description of Drawing (English): ((:front of a house flanked on the right and the left by a palm, and whose door is approached by a quadruped who seems to have long horns like a deer))
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Via dell'Abbondanza (VIII.5.1-30)
CIL: 10212
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis externa in arboris ramo stans))
BO
Translation: BO
Description of Drawing (English): Bird (partridge?) standing on a tree branch
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8573
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bull

Graffito:

((:taurus ad d.))
Description of Drawing (English): Bull facing right
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8544
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of two birds

Graffito:

((:duae aves oppositae, ciconiae?))
Description of Drawing (English): Two birds facing each other (storks?)
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: p. 899 s.n.
Drawing Category: Animals
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Graffito

Graffito:

((:gallus ad sin. rostro cibum carpens))
Description of Drawing (English): ((:rooster facing left, pecking food with his beak))
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Tessitoria di Minucius (I.10.8)
CIL: 8385
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))
Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a fish

Graffito:

((:piscis))
Description of Drawing (English): A fish
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bull?

Graffito:

((:taurus capite cornuto ad. d. incedens))
Description of Drawing (English): Bull with horns moving to the right
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: p. 900, s. n.
Drawing Category: Animals
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Multiple drawings atop each other (bird? boat? phallus)

Graffito:

((:avis?)) ((:avis))
((:phallus))
Description of Drawing (English): Boat? Bird? Phallus
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Categories: Erotic images , Animals
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Drawing of two birds

Graffito:

((:aves oppositae))
Description of Drawing (English): Drawing of two birds facing each other
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8599
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird?

Graffito:

((:psittaci, ut videtur, figura))
Description of Drawing (English): ((:drawing of a bird? parrot?))
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Lupanare (VII.12.18-20)
CIL: 2248
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:Equus ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Horse facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing featuring several figures and an animal, possible theatrical scene

Graffito:

((:vir petasatus et alter baculum tenens (=Mercurius?), animal (taurus?) eos prosequens, et duae figurae (?) procul))
Description of Drawing (English): A male figure wearing a hat, another holding a staff (=Mercury?), an animal (bull?) chasing them, and two figures in the background
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals
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Drawing of two birds

Graffito:

((:duae aves ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Two birds facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8561
Drawing Category: Animals
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Graffito

Graffito:

I S dequi
((:animal))
((:tria hominum capita)) ((:cervus))
Translation: (Series of letters, with several drawings below)
Description of Drawing (English): Animal, heads of three people, and a deer
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Casa di Caecilius Iucundus (V.1.23)
CIL: 4075
Drawing Categories: Human figures , Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:equus))
Description of Drawing (English): Horse
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: 2448
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8597
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of an animal

Graffito:

((:quadrupes ad. d. erectus))
Description of Drawing (English): Rearing four-legged animal, facing right
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8544
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:Equus ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Horse running to the left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a goose

Graffito:

((:anser stans))
Description of Drawing (English): Standing goose
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8611
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis parva ad sin. folium carpens))
Description of Drawing (English): Small bird facing left, pecking at a leaf
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8791
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:Equus ad d.))
Description of Drawing (English): Horse facing right
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): Bird facing left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Campus ad amphitheatrum (II.7.1)
CIL: 8733
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of an animal

Graffito:

((:animal))
Description of Drawing (English): Unknown animal
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a horse

Graffito:

((:Equus infrenatus ad sin. currens))
Description of Drawing (English): Bridled horse running to the left
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Corridoio dei Teatri (VIII.7.20)
CIL: ---
Drawing Category: Animals
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Graffito

Graffito:

Mim̂us̲
BCN
bineis (:βινεῖς)
((:animal))
Description of Drawing (English): Mimus BCN do you drink ((:animal))
City: Pompeii
Findspot: Casa degli Epigrammi (V.1.18)
CIL: 4060
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of stags

Graffito:

((:tria animalia, cervi?))
Description of Drawing (English): three animals, stags?
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis))
Description of Drawing (English): bird
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a cat

Graffito:

((:feles))
Description of Drawing (English): cat
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis))
Description of Drawing (English): bird
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis, olor?))
Description of Drawing (English): long-necked bird, swam?
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a large feline

Graffito:

((:feles magna, leo?))
Description of Drawing (English): large feline, lion?
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis))
Description of Drawing (English): bird
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a fish

Graffito:

((:piscis nat ad sin.))
Description of Drawing (English): fish swimming to the left
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a fish

Graffito:

((:piscis natandus ad dext.))
Description of Drawing (English): fish swimming to the right
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bird

Graffito:

((:avis))
Description of Drawing (English): bird
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a fish

Graffito:

((:piscis))
Description of Drawing (English): fish
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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Drawing of a bull

Graffito:

((:taurus))
Description of Drawing (English): bull
City: Smyrna Smyrna
Findspot: Basilica (Agora.1)
Drawing Category: Animals
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