Ancient Literacies

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

5.389: Entelle, heroum quondam fortissime frustra


44.CIL4.8379: ENTELLE HEROUM
size: 11.1 cm long0.5 6.6 cm high
location: 1. 10. 8, in the atrium, on the pillar to the right as you go into the
cubiculum/tablinum


6.119: si potuit manis accersere coniugis Orpheus


45.CIL4.3183: SI POTUIT
size:16 cm long8 cm high
location: 9. 1. 22, on the wall of the fauces to the left
other notes: It is not clear to me that there is enough of this inscription to see a
direct quotation of Vergil.


6.823: uincet amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido


46.CIL4.3681: VINCET AMU
size: unknown
location: 9. 3. 18 19, on the wall of the street between the two doors
other notes: Unusually, done in white paint rather than scratched, and thus
probably to be connected with the surrounding programmata.


7.1: Tu quoque litoribus nostris, Aeneia nutrix


47.CIL4.3796: AENEIA NUTRIX
size: 1.4 cm high
location: 9. 9. g, on the outside wall to the right of the door
other notes: This house is known as ‘‘the house of Aemelius Celer’’ (a well known
sign painter) on the basis of a painted inscription that reads ‘‘Aemelius Celer
hic habitat’’ (CIL4. 3794). The words above were also painted, in black, along
with the name Aemelius Celer (CIL4.3790, 3792).


48.CIL4.4127: AENEIA
size: 2.5 cm high
location: 5. 2. 10, on the right wall of the atrium


49.CIL4.4373: AAAENEA
size: 3.5 cm high
location:5.5.3,onacolumnintheperistyle(fourthontherightside,fromthesouth)


9.269: uidisti, quo Turnus equo, quibus ibat in armis


50.CIL4.1237 w. add. p. 205: PRIMI[G]ENIUS.. .MYSTIIS COMMUNI SUO
SALUTE VIDISTI QUO TURNUM AEQUORIBUS EIBAT IN ARM[IS] /
SOES... VIRTUTIS MERCES PALMAM PRETIUM GLORIAE VICTORIAE
SPEM CAUSAS
size: 54 cm long3 cm high
location: 6. 1. 24, on the street wall to the left of the door
other notes: It is not clear what connection the second line has to the first,
although Zangemeister inCILthinks it may be senarii. He suspects the author
was a schoolboy.


Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii 315

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