III.5.3 Pompeii. Shop entrance. Excavated 1935?

III.5.3 Pompeii, in centre. November 2024.

Looking west along north side of Via dell’Abbondanza, from III.5.1 on left, to III.5.4 on right. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.

III.5.3 Pompeii. November 2024.

Looking towards east side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.

III.5.3 Pompeii. November 2024. Looking towards entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Annette Haug.

III.5.3 Pompeii, in centre. December 2018.

Looking north towards entrance on Via dell’Abbondanza, with III.5.4, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

III.5.3 Pompeii. September 2005. Entrance doorway.

According to Varone and Stefani, to the west of this doorway (on the left), graffiti were found –

CIL IV 7732, 7733, 7734, 7735

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, (p.278)

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), these read as –

Q(uintum)  Postumium

Modestum  quinq(uennalem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)

dignum  r(ei)  p(ublicae)      [CIL IV 7732]

Cn(aeum)  Helvium  Sabinum  aed(ilem)

v(irum)  p(robum)  Lorei  fac(it)  et  ille  te  faciet       [CIL IV 7733]

This is translated as

Loreius, vote for Cn. Helvius Sabinus, an honest man as aedile, and he will vote for you.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p.123)

Priscum  aed(ilem)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)     [CIL IV 7734]

Trebium  et  Rufum  aed(iles)  o(ro)  v(os)  f(aciatis)  Loreius  rog(at)     [CIL IV 7735]

III.5.3 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of remains of painted plaster on west side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

III.5.3 Pompeii. May 2024. East side of entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

III.5.3 and III.5.4 Pompeii. December 2004. Entrance doorways.

III.5.3 Pompeii. May 2024.

Entrance doorway on right. Detail of painted plaster with graffiti on west side of doorway. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

According to Varone, amongst graffiti found outside this house were two of the amorous kind.

In CIL IV 8897, Varone thought the unknown man who had written it, was boasting to keep account of his conquests –

Nyphe fututa, Amomus fututa,

Perennis fututu            [CIL IV 8897, with the note Nyphe is written for Nymphe and fututu for fututus]    [Now lost]

In CIL IV 8898, Varone thought the writer was making a derogatory comment about Tiopolus

Tiopilus, canis,

cunnu lingere no-

li puellis in muro           [CIL IV 8898]    [Immediately west of the entrance doorway.]

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), these read as –

Ny(m)phe  fututa  Amonus  fututa

Perennis  fututu(s)        [CIL IV 8897]

T(h)iop(h)ilus(!)  canis

cunnu(m)  lingere  no

li  puellis  in  muro         [CIL IV 8898]

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.66 and p.82)

III.5.3 Pompeii. November 2021. Graffito on the façade at the west side of the entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Joonas Vanhala.

According to Varone, the writer was making a derogatory comment about Tiopilus:

Tiopilus, canis,

cunnu lingere no-

li puellis in muro           [CIL IV 8898]

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de), this read as –

T(h)iop(h)ilus(!)  canis

cunnu(m)  lingere  no

li  puellis  in  muro         [CIL IV 8898]

See Varone, A., 2002. Erotica Pompeiana: Love Inscriptions on the Walls of Pompeii, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider, p. 82.

See Varone A., 2012. Titulorum Graphio Exaratorum Qui In C.I.L. Vol. IV Collecti Sunt Imagines: Part 1: Studi SAP 31. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, p. 206.