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Caseggiato degli Aurighi

In the description north is (close to) the true north, so Via Tecta degli Aurighi is assumed to be running from south to north.

Plan of the Caseggiato degli Aurighi.


G0255 - A PRAYER

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 327, nr. 7:

ACTORES P ACTI MARTIALIS
OCCANITE ERAVTRYOLI
EMITTIT TIBYRTYO ORAMT

Interpretation: possibly: "The stewards of Publius Actius Martialis pray that ... releases him from the ocean ... to (his estate in) Tibur".


G0256 - NAMES

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 327, n. 8: FLORO ATINI.


G0257 - BIRTH OF SHEEP?

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 327, nr. 9: MIIΛI VIS . OVIIS NATI

Interpretation: about the birth of sheep?


G0264 - MONEY

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 328, nr. 16:

* III
A VIII
A VIII

Interpretation: * = denarii, A = asses.


G0307 - GREEK NAMES?

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 337, nr. 63.
- Solin 1972, 194:

AΦTONOS
ΠPIMA
[A]ΦTONOS
ΠPIMA
H ΠPIMA

- Solin


G0306 = G0514 - III NONAS APRILES

- Room 8, west wall, left part: III N[O]NAS APRILIIS.
- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 337, nr. 62: III NONAS APRILIIS.

Interpretation: date, April 3rd.

- Jan Theo Bakker
- Brenders 2016


G0313 - EROTIC TEXT OR A REPRIMAND TO THE COLONY

- A very large graffito, next to one of the paintings of charioteers in the ambulatory. Above what might be a drawing of a phallus. In 2015 we read:

COLONIA
LINCITSETAVIT
                      IO?S?[--]
LINCITNISSCIOCVNNV[--]

- Della Corte - Ciprotti 1961, 339, nr. 74: COLONIA | LINGIT SET QUIT | IO | LINGIT NESSCIO CVNNV ... .
- Solin 1967, Tav. 58a.
- Solin 2020, nr. 23: Colonio | lingit, set quit | lingit? nesscio; cunnu[m sc. lingit?].

Interpretation: an erotic graffito about cunnilingus it seems. Solin points out that a personal name Colonia was not in use. He reads Colonio (a newly documented name derived from Colonus), not Colonia. However, the right stroke of the last letter is diagonal and straight. The letter differs clearly from the O in the last line. We can read a reprimand to the colonia Ostia for servile behaviour towards anyone due to a character fault ("a vitio suo").

- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Jan Theo Bakker
- Brenders 2015 (partial)
- Brenders 2015 (partial)
- Brenders 2015 (partial)
- Brenders 2015 (partial)


G0404 - A DATE

- On the right pillar at the southern entrance to the street: XV KAL A.

- Animation, Eric Taylor


G0855 - OBSCENE LANGUAGE

- From the Caseggiato degli Aurighi, which could also be the apartment. In the storerooms, inv. nr. 10017.
- Solin 2020, nr. 22.

recte futui, repeated five times, one time followed by ⚹V[---] = denariis V[---].


CETERA

The photos below are from the Caseggiato degli Aurighi according to the metadata of the ICCD (some of which were seen on the old "interni" website). Some may have been taken in room 17, such as N005251 and N005152. N014880 and N014881 are said to come from room 2, right wall, for which see the comment at G0251.

G0453: ICCD N005251

G0454: ICCD N005252

G0455: ICCD N005398

G0456: ICCD N005399

G0457: ICCD N005400

G0458: ICCD N005401

G0460: ICCD N005404

G0462: ICCD N005406

G0463: ICCD N005408

G0464: ICCD N014880

G0465: ICCD N014881 (turned 180 degrees?)