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    Greek alphabet

    Graffito:

    ΔΕΖΗ
    Translation: (Part of the Greek alphabet)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10715
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    Graffito naming Polybius (?)

    Graffito:

    POLY
    Translation: Poly(bius?)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10637
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    Greek alphabet

    Graffito:

    ΑΒΓΔ
    Translation: (Beginning of an alphabet)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10716
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    Greetings written in the shape of a boat

    Graffito:

    f̣eliter (:feliciter)
    ((:FELICITER in forma navis scriptum))
    Translation: Good luck!
    Description of Drawing (English): FELICITER written in the shape of a boat
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10622
    Drawing Category: Boats
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    Greek letters

    Graffito:

    ΛΙΑΒΙΧΤΛ
    Translation: (series of Greek letters)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10624
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    Greek letters

    Graffito:

    ΚΛΗΒΙΧΝ
    Translation: (series of Greek letters)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10623
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    Numerical graffito

    Graffito:

    Quatuor (:quattuor) cer[---]
    Translation: Four (...)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10632a
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    Greetings to Echio

    Graffito:

    Echio · va(le)
    Translation: Goodbye, Echio.
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10643b
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    Numerical graffito

    Graffito:

    Extan[+1?+] pisu
    [- - -]QVATVS ne
    quinque
    Translation: There exist (...other letters here...) ...fourth(?) not five
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10632b
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    Wordplay (?)

    Graffito:

    VS SVMM
    Translation: the greatest (?) (with letters rearranged?)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10638
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    Series of letters

    Graffito:

    CA
    Translation: CA
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10642
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    Drawing of a boat

    Graffito:

    ((:navis))
    Description of Drawing (English): boat
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    Drawing Category: Boats
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    Drawing of a boat

    Graffito:

    ((:carina navis))
    Description of Drawing (English): keel of ship
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    Drawing Category: Boats
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    Erotic grafitto

    Graffito:

    V Bombycion (:Βομβύκιον)
    fellat
    Translation: Bombycion sucks
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10628
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    Graffito naming a man

    Graffito:

    Q(uintus) M[---] Antu[s ---]
    Translation: Quintus M(---) Antu(s--?)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10630
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    Poetic graffito

    Graffito:

    Qui · se tutari · nescit · nescit · vivere
    Minimum · malu (:malum) · fit contemnendo · maximum
    Translation: He who does not know to guard himself does not know how to live. The tiniest trouble, if ignored, becomes tremendous (i.e. the smallest evil becomes the greatest).
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10634
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    Graffito

    Graffito:

    〈:ad perpendiculum〉
    Numini
    Translation: For the numen (divine will).
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10641
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    Poetic graffito

    Graffito:

    Venimus,
    venimus
    hoc cupidi,
    multo magis ire cupimus.
    Translation: We came! We came here desiring, much more do we desire to go
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10640
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    Graffito naming Albinus

    Graffito:

    Albinus
    Translation: Albinus
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10633
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    Initials (?)

    Graffito:

    PÂM
    Translation: P(ublius) A(---) M(---?)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10625b
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    Series of letters

    Graffito:

    HIMME
    Translation: (untranslateable series of letters)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10639
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    Graffito

    Graffito:

    NO
    Translation: NO
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10625a
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    Graffito naming Phoebus

    Graffito:

    Fuibus (:Phoebus)
    egrotes (:aegrotes)
    Translation: Phoebus - May you fall ill.
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10631
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    Graffito

    Graffito:

    Q(uintus) M[---]ANTV[---]
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10630
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    Mention of food

    Graffito:

    Casium et
    tres sc[- - -]rios habes
    Translation: You have cheese and three (...)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10632c
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    Graffito

    Graffito:

    Vidimus
    Translation: We saw
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10635
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    Graffito mentioning a name

    Graffito:

    CAI
    Translation: Gaius! (vocative... or abbreviated nominative, or set of initials)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10636
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    Series of letters

    Graffito:

    IVIIRIIHIIRI
    Translation: (untranslateable series of letters)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10627
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    Beginning of a name (?)

    Graffito:

    METI
    Translation: Metienus(?) OR Mettius(?)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10644
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    Greetings to Anicetus and Paris

    Graffito:

    Anicete Paris, va(lete)
    Translation: Goodbye, Anicetus (and) Paris.
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10643a
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    Graffito

    Graffito:

    [- - -]o
    [- - -]foro
    Translation: ... (in the) forum (?)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10629
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    Greetings to Lucius Actius

    Graffito:

    L(uci) Acti va(le). Mystice mus comici Icui 〈:vacat〉 pro 〈:vacat〉 te fuimus.
    Translation: Lucius Actius, farewell. Mysticus, mus(ician), (slave?) of the comedian Icuus...we were for you. (trans. Cooley and Cooley)
    City: Herculaneum
    Findspot: House of the Telephus Relief (InsulaOrientalisI.2)
    CIL: 10643c
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