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Place of discovery unknown: texts

G0366 - BUTTER, OIL AND GRAIN

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 337, nr. 64: IIII BYTIRRI | OLEVM X FRVMII.


G0367 - EPILEPSY?

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 337, nr. 65: A EHI COMITIALE VA | ANIHA.

Interpretation: perhaps about epilepsy, morbus comitialis.


G0368 - A COMMERCIAL RIVAL

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 338, nr. 66: COIIMIAXCFVDI RIVA.

Interpretation: perhaps coemi a(ssibus) XC, fudi riva[lem], "I bought it for 90 asses, I beat my rival", referring to an auction.


G0369 - TEXT

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 338, nr. 67: AVLA.


G0370 - A DATE

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 338, nr. 68: III N DIICIIMBRIIS | SPANILLA P[---]XXIX | MOD MAFA[---]TV.

Interpretation: December 3rd.


G0371 - FROM SAMOS?

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 338, nr. 69: SVIIISAMIVS.

Interpretation: perhaps sum Samius, "I am from Samos".


G0372 - ABOUT SOME PEOPLE

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 338, nr. 70:

CALVIUS [---]ILIGIVS EST
POMPTINIVS D[---]ONVS FELIG SIT ICIL ATEDVSIS ETREIIR
ARRIOMMO BONVS EST
CALVVS CEPIDIAM PVELLAM ET DARE AIONVVS
ET MVLIERII TVVS IOLI ET SETIMINVS EST

Interpretation: comments about a number of people. "Calvius ... Pomptinius ... is happy (?) ...Arri(us) is a good man". Then something is said about a girl and a wife.


G0373 - ALPHABET

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 339, nr. 75.

Interpretation: the beginning of the Greek alphabet.

- Della Corte - Ciprotti


G0374 - MONEY

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 339, nr. 76: DIINARIOS XXVII. Next to a drawing of a lizard.


G0375 - A NAME AND A MALE HEAD

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 339, nr. 77: POYΦOC. Next to a drawing of a male head.

Interpretation: the name Rufus.

- Della Corte - Ciprotti


G0376 - TEXT

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 340, nr. 79: NERONII EMAOPII | NECA DIGNA PO.


G0377 - IN MEMORY OF ...

- Solin 1972, 196: MNHCΘH[---].

Solin

G0378 - TEXT

- "Porta Marina, graffito in un pilastro".
- CIL XIV, 2038, described by C.L. Visconti in November 1865: . Below a drawing of a bird.

Interpretation: nothing remains of the gate, so it is somewhere in the area.

- CIL


G0380 - VERGIL'S AENEID

- On a marble slab found in 1862 not far from the Tiber near the Capitolium. In a tabula ansata.
- CIL XIV, 2034: ARMA VIRVM | QUE CA.

Interpretation: the first words of the Aeneid of Vergilius.

- CIL


G0381 - A GAMING BOARD?

- On a marble slab.
- CIL XIV, 2035.

- CIL


G0382 - TEXT AND A HEAD

- On a marble slab found in Via dei Vigili.
- NSc 1909, 97 n. 9.
- CIL XIV S, 5297: BVRDO. The text accompanies a rough bust of a young man with bulla.

Interpretation: a burdo is a mule.


G0383 - THE HAPPY ROMAN

- On a marble slab found in Via della Fullonica.
- NSc 1912, 209 n. 2.
- CIL XIV S, 5298: ROMAN | VS FELIX.