Graffiti - public version.

Graffiti - public version

ID	Category	Description
G0277	Alphabet	Greek text Part of the Greek alphabet. •Photograph
G0276	Alphabet	Greek text Part of the Greek alphabet? •Photograph
G0373	Alphabet	Greek text The beginning of the Greek alphabet.
G0167	Alphabet	Greek text The Greek alphabet on lines 3 and 4.
G0426	Alphabet	Part of the alphabet (OPQRSTVXY). •Photograph ICCD N14856
G0161	Amphitheatre and circus	A gladiator with arm outstretched. •Photograph
G0386	Amphitheatre and circus	A gladiator with shield and helmet. Possibly this is a secutor, to which the letter S in the upper left part may refer. To the right is a trident, a weapon used by the retiarius, a regular opponent of the secutor. •Photograph. •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker - the discovery by Simon Bakker. •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution).
G0387	Amphitheatre and circus	A quadriga. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker - taking the picture after the discovery.
G0129	Amphitheatre and circus	Drawing A gladiator looking towards his left. •Photograph
G0084	Amphitheatre and circus	Drawing Androm(achus) iii ca(lendas) Apr(iles) \| Bal(erianus) iiii non(as) Mai(as). It has been suggested that this graffito is about gladiators. The dates are March 30 and May 4.
G0029	Amphitheatre and circus	Drawing Drawing According to the excavator "... two gladiators in combat, one of which fully armed with fasciae, manica, galea and a rectangular shield. Above the figure the name TAVRVS ..." Others suggest that the drawing is of a judge and a victorious gladiator (retiarius), and read above the drawing the inscription: GLAPHYRINVS / BAETICVS TAVR[VS] •Photograph.
G0270	Amphitheatre and circus	QV SECVNDA FORMOSA BINII QUII BINTVA FACIIS AGITANTI PRASINI CRISPI The first part seems to be about a beautiful girl, Secunda. For line 3 cf. Suetonius, Nero 22: prasinum agitatorem, a Green charioteer in the games at the circus. The factio prasina was the party of charioteers who dressed in green. The graffito brings to mind the paintings of charioteers in the building. •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5407 (centre)
G0036b	Animals	A horse's head. • Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5387 (small, towards the left, legs also visible) •Photograph ICCD N5388 (small, towards the bottom, legs also visible)
G0036a	Animals	A horse's head. •Photograph
G0036j	Animals	A ram's head. •Photograph
G0399	Animals	A two-headed horse or wolf?. •Photograph
G0350	Animals	Drawing A horse or cow? •Photograph.
G0136	Animals	Drawing •Photograph
G0331	Animals	Drawing A snake with a comb on its head. •Photograph
G0016	Animals	Drawing An elephant showing 'criss-cross' markings, a technique frequently used with drawings of animals. Several deer are drawn like this at Herculaneum, as is a horse at Dura Europus. •Photograph.
G0147	Animals	Drawing Perhaps about the sale of pigs (porci).
G0391	Animals	Drawing The head of an animal.
G0257	Animals	MII/\I VIS . OVIIS NATI About the birth of sheep?
G0264	Commercial texts	* III A VIII A VIII * = denarii, A = asses.
G0357	Commercial texts	• Photographs: Details, low resolution: A \| B \| C \| D \| E \| F \| G \| H1 \| H2 Overviews, low resolution: ABCD \| CDEF \| GH Details, high resolution (Jan Theo Bakker): G-H \| I (new) \| A-B \| C-D \| E-F •Photograph ICCD E40903 (upside down) Open this PDF to see what we read after high resolution photographs were made in 2009. Most of these graffiti are dates related to the receiving of money. A year has not been found. Sometimes text was cancelled by horizontal lines. For some reason, during a number of months, registration took place on a wall. Quite interesting is the text: "On August 28 it is thundering here" (hic tonat). A reference to a thunderstorm seems unlikely. Perhaps a quarrel is meant, or even an earthquake.
G0355	Commercial texts	accepti (denarii) XXV K(alendis) Decenb(ribus) About money received on December 1st.
G0368	Commercial texts	COIIMIAXCFVDI RIVA Perhaps Coemi a(ssibus) XC, fudi riva[lem]: "I bought it for 90 asses, I beat my rival", referring to an auction.
G0374	Commercial texts	DIINARIOS XXVII A text referring to money. Next to a drawing of a lizard.
G0258	Commercial texts	Drawing PANIIM A VIII LIGNA A V About the purchase of bread and wood (or a wooden writing-tablet), paid with a(sses). •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5248 (right part only)
G0366	Commercial texts	IIII BYTIRRI OLEVM X FRVMII The graffito mentions butter, oil and grain (frume[ntum]).
G0309	Commercial texts	PRIMODIII * VII SECVNDO NISV * VII INTIIRTIO * X Apparently the registration of the payment of denarii on the first, second and third day. •Photograph
G0216	Complex structures	A grid or gaming board. •Photograph
G0240	Complex structures	A grid. •Photograph
G0006	Complex structures	A map or a machine? •Photograph.
G0335	Complex structures	A map? The first photo is in reality also above the second one. The two photos partly overlap. •Photographs • Photographs by Jan Theo Bakker Overview Top part Central part Lower part
G0007	Complex structures	A rectangular shape with (partly inscribed) lines. •Photograph.
G0010	Complex structures	A structure and perhaps a human figure. •Photograph.
G0362	Complex structures	Concentric circles and a few straight lines. •Photograph.
G0346	Complex structures	Drawing. •Photograph.
G0125	Complex structures	Drawing •Photograph
G0115	Complex structures	Drawing •Photograph
G0121	Complex structures	Drawing A plan of two buildings? •Photograph
G0316	Complex structures	Drawing A structure looking like a millstone in a bakery. •Photograph
G0197	Complex structures	Lines. •Photograph
G0198	Complex structures	Lines. •Photograph
G0020	Complex structures	Long and short lines. •Photograph.
G0359	Complex structures	Profile of an object. The architrave of a temple or public building? •Photograph.
G0053	Complex structures	X I I I I I I I I I and lines. •Photograph
G0212	Dates	Drawing K VX IVNIVS \| IVLIAS •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5420 •Photograph ICCD N5421
G0022	Dates	Drawing Many dates can be read (apparently January 18-26 and March 26 in the first column, February 11 in the second). The word centenarium refers to something consisting of or relating to one hundred, such as a pistrinum centenarium, a bakery for which a minimum investment was needed or which handled a minimum amount of grain.
G0266	Dates	Drawing V IDVS MARTIAS March 11. •Photograph •Photograph
G0265	Dates	Drawing V K OCT VIINIT K = KAL. About the arrival of someone on September 28. •Photograph
G0028	Dates	Drawing VII ID IVN June 7th. •Photograph.
G0027	Dates	Drawing VII Kal Commodas. Commodus had introduced a month called Commodus (August or perhaps September). After his death the original name was restored. Cf. CIL XIV, 2113 (Lavinium). •Photograph.
G0143	Dates	II KAL MAR February 29.
G0278	Dates	III K •Photograph
G0333	Dates	III K •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5270
G0370	Dates	III N DIICIIMBRIIS SPANILLA P[---]XXIX MOD MAFA[---]TV December 3rd.
G0306	Dates	III NONAS APRILIIS April 3rd.
G0379	Dates	Imp(eratore) Antonino III e(t) Comazonte II co(n)s(ulibus) VIII Idus Aug(ustas) August 6, 220 AD. •Photograph ICCD E40880 (turned 90 degrees)
G0310	Dates	IV IDVS •Photograph
G0467	Dates	K MART IDVS \| IVLIAS. •Photograph ICCD N5424
G0296	Dates	M CAVIO SQUILLA GALLICANO SEX CARMINIO VETERE [co(n)s(ulibus)] A consular date: 150 AD.
G0329	Dates	Tallymarks and dates (February 13, March 18). •Photographs •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker • Photographs ICCD: N5261 (tallymarks, part of IDVS FEB) N5262 (tallymarks, IDVS FEB, XV K APR) N5263 (tallymarks and dates) N5264 (tallymarks, IDVS FEB, XV K APR) N5265 (tallymarks and dates)
G0452	Dates	V IDVS OCT ... •Photograph ICCD N14849 •Photograph ICCD N14869
G0241	Dates	V K A . . . A •Photograph
G0163	Dates	XII K__L XII •Photograph
G0219	Dates	XII K •Photograph
G0445	Erotica	CINEDVS PEDICATVR \| ... Note the lines through part of the text. •Photograph ICCD N14851
G0293	Erotica	CRVSEROS AMAS ADAMA APELLA CRVSIDE . IVSTVS IANVAR[---]VS PLVRIMA "Chrysis, you love Chryseros, but he loves Apella. Many greetings from Iustus Ianuarius". Line 3 was written in the right half of the graffito.
G0280	Erotica	Drawing [---]IANVARIA NUGAS ES VIDVS SCRIPSIT [---]IMISS[---]VIISTI NII IIOVS C R O VIIST AMATOR [---]AII NIIVA[---]IIS [--]AC [---]N About a frivolous girl, Ianuaria, and a lover. Lines 2, 4 and 5 were written in the right half of the graffito. •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5409
G0063	Erotica	Drawing A phallus and text. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution).
G0078	Erotica	Drawing A phallus. •Photograph
G0034	Erotica	Drawing According to the excavator: Agathopus et Prima et Epaphroditus tres convenientes. Others suggests: Agathopus et Prima et (four deleted letters) Mod(e)stus tres convenientes. "Agathopus and Prima (or: Primus?) and Epaphroditus (or: Modestus) had a threesome". •Photographs.
G0035	Erotica	Drawing According to the excavator: Cepholus et Musice duo conve \| nientes. Others suggests: Nicephorus et Musice duo convenientes. "Cepholus (or: Nicephorus?) and Musice came together". •Photograph.
G0313	Erotica	Drawing COLONICV(S) LINGIT SET QUIT LINGIT NESSCIO CVNNV[---] Apparently about licking a c**t. Above an erotic drawing (phallus). •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker
G0030	Erotica	Drawing Hermadion cinaedus. "You are a faggot, Hermadion".
G0033a-b	Erotica	Drawing Two graffiti, one on top of the other. Hic ad Callin[i]cum futui orem anum (palma) amicom [---] re nolite r in aedi ( or: [c]inaede) [---] "Here I had oral and anal intercourse with my friend in the inn of Callinicus (or: with my sea-going friend Callinicus?). Do not ...". This graffito was written first. Callinicus was probably the owner (vilicus) of the building. Livius me cunus lincet Tertulle cunnu ov[---] Efesius Terpsilla amat. "Livius licks my ct (or: Livius, that faggot, licks me?). Tertullus ... ct (or: faggot?) ... Efesius loves Terpsilla (or: Terisius?)". This is the second graffito. •Photograph •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5385 •Photograph ICCD N5386
G0385	Erotica	Ego memini quemda(m) crissasse puella(m), cuius cineres aurea terra tegat "I remember touching the buttocks of a certain girl, whose ashes the golden earth covers". From a tomb.
G0508	Erotica	Greek text A Greek text, referring to a depilator or perhaps rather an erotic allusion.
G0253	Erotica	HICAMOR HABITAT "Love lives here". •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5250 (at left end)
G0284	Erotica	LVCILA FORMOSA TIBI IIS NITA NIS SIS AMA About a beautiful girl, Lucilla. •Photograph
G0286	Erotica	M/\MIVS SALIVS FORMOSVS About a beautiful man. Line 2 was written in the right half of the graffito. •Photograph
G0299	Erotica	PVPA V(ale) SAL(utem) "Darling (doll), hello, greetings!"
G0324	Famous buildings	A temple, or public building. •Photograph
G0390	Famous buildings - Lighthouse of Portus	Drawing The lighthouse in Portus, next to Trajan's column. The upper left part has recently disappeared. •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5281
G0230	Famous buildings - Lighthouse of Portus	Drawing The lighthouse in Portus. •Photograph •Photograph
G0446	Famous buildings - Lighthouse of Portus	The lighthouse of Portus. •Photograph ICCD N14872
G0510	Famous buildings - Lighthouse of Portus	The lighthouse of Portus. •Photograph (high resolution).
G0228	Famous buildings - Trajan's column	Old photo A drawing of Trajan's column with the text: PVTE[olanus?] \| H \| HIERON PI \| NXIT. "On the western wall of the porticoed corridor someone called Hieron, of Greek origin, has signed the oldest, perhaps unique, depiction of Trajan's Column in Rome, drawn with great care and precision. The Ostia lighthouse is drawn several times with varying degrees of success and, on the same wall, a careful hand has minutely drawn a kind of small board divided into squares, more or less like our modern game of chess" (R. Calza). The upper part has recently disappeared. •Photograph •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5281 Old drawing of the column Photo of the lower part of the column
G0120	Frames for writing	Drawing •Photograph
G0213	Frames for writing	Drawing A tabula ansata. •Photograph
G0113	Frames for writing	Drawing Tabula ansata. •Photograph
G0184	Frames for writing	IATVM in an unfinished tabula ansata (left ansa missing). The thickness of the letters and the position, on the bottom line and not in the centre, suggest that we read here the English name Tatum. The tabula ansata may be modern as well. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker.
G0229	Games	A gaming board. •Photograph
G0077	Games	Drawing A gaming board? Modern? •Photograph
G0186	Games	Drawing The 1 on a dice. The second in a row of three dice. •Photograph
G0187	Games	Drawing The 4 on a dice. The third in a row of three dice. On the three dice the numbers are 6, 1 and 4, perhaps intended as the numerical palindrome VIIIV. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker.
G0185	Games	Drawing The 6 on a dice. The first in a row three dice. •Photograph
G0031	Geometric and vegetative motifs	(palma)
G0418	Geometric and vegetative motifs	•Photograph
G0414	Geometric and vegetative motifs	•Photograph
G0413	Geometric and vegetative motifs	•Photograph
G0410	Geometric and vegetative motifs	•Photograph
G0415	Geometric and vegetative motifs	•Photograph
G0437	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A branch. •Photograph ICCD N14860
G0347	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A circle with an inscribed cross. • Photograph.
G0001	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A circle with an inscribed cross. •Photograph.
G0342	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A cross in a circle. •Photograph.
G0179	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A drawing of metal decoration? •Photograph
G0178	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A few lines forming triangles. •Photograph
G0175	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A geometrical pattern. •Photograph
G0002	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A rectangle with inscribed lines, looking like a simple plan. •Photograph.
G0059	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A square with inscribed lines. •Photograph
G0172	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A wheel? •Photograph
G0166	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A wheel? •Photograph
G0165	Geometric and vegetative motifs	A wheel? •Photograph
G0451	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Branches. •Photograph ICCD N14853
G0396	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing. •Photograph
G0079	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0075	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0189	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0191	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0188	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0190	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0118	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0124	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0123	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing •Photograph
G0064	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing A circle with inscribed lines. •Photograph
G0056	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing A circle with inscribed lines. •Photograph
G0114	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing Concentric circles, perhaps a rope coiled on the deck of a ship. •Photograph
G0080	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing Lines looking like a plan. •Photograph
G0196	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing Rectangle drawn over the head on a wall painting. •Photograph
G0117	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Drawing Two helices, the one on the left vertical, the one on the right horizontal. •Photograph
G0204	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Geometrical design. It looks as though this drawing has not been completed. •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5423
G0203	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Geometrical design. •Photograph
G0398	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Geometrical design. •Photograph
G0202	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Geometrical design. It looks as though a mistake has been made in this drawing, which as a result has not been completed. •Photograph
G0004	Geometric and vegetative motifs	Three objects looking like a branch, a stick and a bracelet. •Photograph.
G0406	Human figures	•Photograph
G0363	Human figures	A face? •Photograph.
G0060	Human figures	A head or torso? •Photograph
G0082	Human figures	A human figure. •Photograph
G0036i	Human figures	A human figure. •Photograph
G0036h	Human figures	A human figure. •Photograph
G0036l	Human figures	A human torso. •Photograph
G0036c	Human figures	A male figure. • Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5290
G0382	Human figures	BVRDO The text accompanies a rough bust of a young man with bulla.
G0513	Human figures	Drawing of a person. •Photograph (high resolution). •Photograph with drawing (high resolution).
G0351	Human figures	Drawing One of three heads found one above the other. •Photograph.
G0130	Human figures	Drawing A head looking towards his left. •Photograph
G0176	Human figures	Drawing A male, winged head. Perhaps a representation of a wind. •Photograph
G0352	Human figures	Drawing One of three heads found one above the other. •Photograph.
G0353	Human figures	Drawing One of three heads found one above the other. •Photograph.
G0081	Human figures	Drawing The headware being worn in this drawing seems identical to examples described by Langner (2001) at Aphrodisias, Pompeii and Delphi. One explanation of what is happening is that a tibia is being played. It may also be a modern custodian or archaeologist, smoking a cigar. •Photograph
G0375	Human figures	Greek text A name. Next to a drawing of a male head.
G0133	Human figures	Head and shoulders, looking left. •Photograph
G0395	Human figures	Male head. •Photograph ICCD N15469 •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution).
G0036k	Human figures	Perhaps the legs of a male figure. •Photograph
G0023	Masters and slaves	Drawing and Greek text "Your mistress is far inferior to you". •Photograph.
G0037	Masters and slaves	Drawing domesticus (or Domesticus?) grat[i]as aget dominu suo [?] opto te bene (or opto te benei valea) [?] to. A slave thanks his master and wishes him well.
G0259	Masters and slaves	HICEGOMENAEMI "Here I bought (the slave) Menas".
G0367	Medicine	A EHI COMITIALE VA ANIHA Perhaps about epilepsy (morbus comitialis).
G0279	Medicine	MIIDICAMI[---] LINGAE BVBI[---] BVS About medicine and the plant lingua bubula (ox-tongue). Cato, De Re Rustica 40: "cover the whole with ox-tongue, so that if it rains the water will not soak into the bark". See also Pliny, Natural History, 17, 14, 24, par. 112. It has been used in history to induce courage, joy, merriment, exhilaration, and making "the mind glad". It was also ground up into a poultice, and used to treat bruises and abrasions. •Photograph
G0144	Mixed content	"Dates and accounts and notes drawn with many parallel lines, through which a diagonal line is drawn".
G0026	Mixed content	"Next to the door, on the right, a small boat, without sails, drawn with infinite accuracy; next to it there is a figure showing its right profile, wrapped in a cloak that seems to hide its legs, which cannot be seen. Behind, or resting on its shoulder, is a cornucopia which could indicate that this is a female figure, although its features are rather masculine... Below these there is a complete, very large circle."
G0090	Mixed content	[Photo nr. - layer - description] 1 - Layer 31.....VIII 2 - Layer 31 right....AIN HIVI 3 - Layer 30 left ....a boat 4 - Layer 29 left ....another boat? 5 - Layer 28....MARCUS AVR[e]LIVS NXX I/ 6 - Layers 28/27 right....AXXX 7 - Layers 27/26....AXHMI 8 - Layer 26 right....X 9 - Layer 24 centre....M 10 - Layer 23 right....tally marks 11 - Layer 22 left....tally marks 12 - Layers 22/21 right....*AAXI 13 - Layer 21 left....? 14 - Layers 21/20/19 centre....rigging of a boat? 15 - Layer 18 centre....C_IIIINISAVIV 16 - Layer 16 centre....VI 17 - Layer 15....AIXI 18 - Layer 14 left....AEMILIVS IVNIOR 19 - Layer 14 right...._A_ 20 - Layer 11 left....SIAAI 21 - Layer 11 centre....NVX 22 - Layer 10 left....IX__IIII 23 - Layer 8 centre....NVM 24 - Layer 7 centre/right....SVISH 25 - Layers 7/6/5 right....? • Photographs: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 20 \| 21 \| 22 \| 23 \| 24 \| 25 • Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker: layer 28.
G0091	Mixed content	[Photo nr. - layer - description] 1 - Layer 33 left.....? 2 - Layer 33 right....rigging? 3 - Layer 32 left ....AICYC? 4 - Layer 32 centre ....? 5 - Layer 32 right...Steelyard or building? 6 - Layers 31 right....? 7 - Layers 30/29 right....? 8 - Layer 29 left/centre....SN I IVN RCVI AATAISI 9 - Layer 28 left....II IIIC I H X 10 - Layer 28 centre....X A W X II 11 - Layer 27 left....VTA__MVIIMI 12 - Layer 27/26 right....Rigging 13 - Layer 24 centre....I N 14 - Layers 23 left....STITIIIIAI 15 - Layer 23 centre/right ....II IIA IIII SIS IIII 16 - Layers 21 left....IVNIVS CHRIISIMVS 17 - Layer 20 left....? 18 - Layer 20 centre....F 19 - Layer 19/18 centre....A boat? 20 - Layers 21 to 18 right ....A boat? 21 - Layer 18 left/centre ....AHVIIIM____AIXIS 22 - Layer 15 left....AIIHII IIA III and a boat 23 - Layer 16/15 right ....? 24 - Layer 14 left....ABCD_FG 25 - Layer 13 centre....? 26 - Layer 12 left ....AN 27 - Layers 11 centre....NE AA NIV N 28 Layer 10 right....IVI • Photographs: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 \| 14 \| 15 \| 16 \| 17 \| 18 \| 19 \| 20 \| 21 \| 22 \| 23 \| 24 \| 25 \| 26 \| 27 \| 28 • Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker: layers 21-20.
G0127	Mixed content	• Photographs: A comb-pattern A graffito and impressed thumbprint A X Possibly EA? A few lines
G0388	Mixed content	•Various texts.
G0468	Mixed content	A number above a drawing of a tower? •Photograph ICCD N5410
G0393	Mixed content	AVE \| RO(ma?) With drawings of a head of a donkey and a palm branch.
G0378	Mixed content	Drawing Below a drawing of a bird.
G0134	Mixed content	Drawing "A slab bearing graffiti of an elephant, a web-footed horse, a four-legged beast with a mouse's snout, a helmeted soldier with shield and lance, a juggler, a boat with an oar". •Photograph
G0137	Mixed content	Drawing •Photograph ICCD N5389
G0088	Mixed content	Drawing Left column, layer 27: the Greek alphabet. • Photographs: Left column, layers 29-26 Left column, layer 26 Left column, layers 25-20 Left column, layers 20-19 Left column, layer 15 Right column, layers 23-22
G0429	Mixed content	Drawings and text. •Photograph ICCD N14859
G0036	Mixed content	G0036a-l Drawing "... as well as boats ... there is a virile, nude figure of the athletic type, surrounded by animals amongst which two horses, a ram and a dog are recognisable." One person is wreathed.
G0499	Mixed content	Numbers and a ship? •Photograph ICCD N5411
G0512	Mixed content	Text and a drawing. •Photograph (high resolution).
G0460	Mixed content	Text and drawings. •Photograph ICCD N5404
G0109	Names	(centuria) RVFI VARIVS INGE[---]
G0092	Names	AVRELIVS HERMOGENES
G0089	Names	Drawing • Photographs: Layer 25 Layers 22-21
G0519	Names	Drawing A Greek name.
G0108	Names	Drawing An excubatorium is a small watch-post of the fire brigade. The date is March 18. •Photograph. Identification uncertain.
G0014	Names	Drawing CAMAND[---] Possibly a name (Gaius Amandus). In a shrine. •Photograph.
G0256	Names	FLORO ATINI
G0307	Names	Greek text
G0334	Names	Greek text •Photograph ICCD N5271
G0154	Names	Greek text Part of a name, together with G0153. •Photograph ICCD N5259 (bottom right) •Photograph ICCD N5296 (bottom right)
G0153	Names	Greek text Part of a name, together with G0154. •Photograph ICCD N5259 (bottom left) •Photograph ICCD N5296 (bottom left) •Photograph ICCD N5260 (bottom)
G0093	Names	HIRPINIVS DO[---]
G0298	Names	IANVARIA FVIT IANVARIAS •Photograph
G0267	Names	LCFHIC H BIN The initials of someone who was "here"? •Photograph
G0126	Names	MARIVS BASSINIAKCSL_OI SANNIMO ANIVE_O • Photographs: Upper left part Directly below upper left part Upper right part Detail of upper right part •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution).
G0291	Names	MMISSXVSFEGIT "[Name] made it".
G0304	Names	MRVSIILLIO COS SOLVI The name is probably M. Rubellius. Cos may be a false reading, because a consul with the name Marcus Rubellius is not known.
G0518	Names	POMPEIVS FIILIX
G0343	Names	YACINTHVS
G0338	Numbers	* I I I + + + + * + I I •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5268 •Photograph ICCD N5269
G0332	Numbers	* IIIIIIIIIIIIII •Photograph
G0237	Numbers	* X CX X XX •Photograph
G0408	Numbers	•Photograph
G0475	Numbers	A number. •Photograph ICCD N5273
G0502	Numbers	A number. •Photograph ICCD N5414
G0381	Numbers	Drawing
G0073	Numbers	Drawing •Photograph
G0071	Numbers	Drawing •Photograph
G0074	Numbers	Drawing •Photograph
G0223	Numbers	Drawing •Photograph •Photograph by Mary Jane Cuyler (high resolution; 2013)
G0311	Numbers	Drawing IOCINA * C C C C C X X V •Photograph
G0068	Numbers	Drawing Surely modern ?! •Photograph
G0067	Numbers	Drawing Surely modern ?! •Photograph
G0066	Numbers	Drawing Surely modern ?! •Photograph
G0131	Numbers	Drawing Tally marks. •Photograph
G0160	Numbers	HN IIII •Photograph
G0052	Numbers	I I I I I X I I I I I •Photograph
G0162	Numbers	IIII •Photograph
G0045	Numbers	IIIII •Photograph
G0182	Numbers	IIIIIII X IIIII X IIIIII X •Photograph
G0193	Numbers	IIIIV IIII D •Photograph
G0044	Numbers	IV •Photograph
G0402	Numbers	LXXVII. •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5267
G0479	Numbers	Many numbers. •Photograph ICCD N5277
G0472	Numbers	Numbers. •Photograph ICCD N5257
G0486	Numbers	Numbers. •Photograph ICCD N5285
G0341	Numbers	Small crosses. •Photograph.
G0233	Numbers	Some lines and the text ...XV... •Photograph
G0180	Numbers	Tally marks. •Photograph
G0226	Numbers	Tally marks. •Photograph
G0174	Numbers	Tally marks. •Photograph
G0225	Numbers	Tally marks. •Photograph
G0208	Numbers	Tallymarks •Photograph
G0345	Numbers	Tallymarks. • Photograph.
G0480	Numbers	Tallymarks. •Photograph ICCD N5278
G0484	Numbers	Tallymarks. •Photograph ICCD N5283
G0344	Numbers	Tallymarks. •Photograph.
G0217	Numbers	Tallymarks •Photograph
G0055	Numbers	Tallymarks •Photograph
G0054	Numbers	Tallymarks •Photograph
G0340	Numbers	Tallymarks •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5266
G0158	Numbers	*X H I I** •Photograph
G0049	Numbers	X X I I •Photograph
G0232	Numbers	X X X X I •Photograph
G0220	Numbers	XIII •Photograph
G0209	Numbers	XIIII •Photograph
G0042	Numbers	XIIIII.IIIIIII.. •Photograph
G0485	Numbers.	Numbers. •Photograph ICCD N5284
G0094	People - About people	[---]SVENVSTVSOMOBON\[---] ---iu]s Venustus (h)omo bonu[s] (tus was written above the line). "... Venustus is a good man". On a brick.
G0255	People - About people	ACTORES P ACTI MARTIALIS OCCANITE ERAVTRYOLI EMITTIT TIBYRTYO ORAMT Possibly: "The stewards of Publius Actius Martialis pray that ... releases him from the ocean ... to (his estate in) Tibur".
G0372	People - About people	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 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.
G0308	People - About people	Drawing VIII IDVS SIIPTIIMBRIIS LICINIVS HOSPIIS VIGVIT "On September 6 the host Licinius ...". •Photograph
G0305	People - About people	Greek text "Every comer scrawls the walls with his graffiti, The only one who's written none is me. Bugger all these scrawlers! My entreaty Is to call them epitoechographs [writers on the wall] like me." •Photograph
G0268	People - About people	Greek text "Every comer scrawls the walls with his graffiti, The only one who's written none is me." •Photograph
G0274	People - About people	HOC QUI SCRIP[---] [---] N [---]GIT INFRA "He who wrote this ... below".
G0509	People - About people	LVRE SIC EXPIRIS ("Lurius, in this way you will die"). Was this really a name, or was it "lupus" (wolf), the P later changed to an R? •Photograph Kent-Berlin
G0302	People - About people	MVLVSAMETPATICAM "The wall loves the perverted woman" (?)
G0287	People - About people	OBIILIA SVO [---]OLATIO VA(le) "Obelia to her ..., greetings".
G0288	People - About people	SIICVNDE PALICAR PVS IIS Secunde, Policarpus es? ("Secundus, you are ...").
G0294	People - About people	STEPI STEPHANEFASTI AT RVFIONE Possibly: "Rufio dislikes Stephanus!" (or the other way around).
G0371	People - About people	SVIIISAMIVS Perhaps Sum Samius ("I am from Samos").
G0168	People - Famous people	Drawing Greek text "Diogenes the Cynic". Is someone in the building being compared to Diogenes and his doglike behaviour?
G0380	People - Famous people	Drawing The first words of the Aeneid of Vergilius.
G0021	Religion	Drawing A parallel from Rome suggests that the first line contained the names of the seven planets. The numbers indicate the days of the month.
G0072	Religion - Christianity	Drawing The chi-rho monogram. •Photograph
G0282	Religion - Christianity	EX PERSECVNDE DOMINII SALVTIS EME "Lord give safety from the persecutor". (?)
G0422	Religion - Chritianity	LEGE ET INTELLIGE MVTV LOQVI AD MACELLV(M) "Read and understand that a dumb man has recovered his speech in the Market" •Photograph •Photograph
G0354	Religion - Cult of Mithras	DOMINVS SOL HIC AVITAT Dominus Sol \| hic avitat = Dominus Sol hic habitat. "Lord Sun lives here". The reference is probably to Sol-Mithras. •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker.
G0015	Religion - Cult of Mithras	Drawing In a mithraeum. In the left column possibly the names of slaves (the first name may be Hylas). In the right column possibly gifts to Mithras, amongst which was wine. BINV may be vinv[m]. The X with a vertical bar may stand for denarius. The lines end with numbers. Below the niche of mithraeum. •Photograph.
G0105	Religion - Imperial cult	[---]DISIVS or I/STVS Near a shrine.
G0104	Religion - Imperial cult	AELIVS MASVETVS EX ACTVS LATER[---]VM Near a shrine.
G0101	Religion - Imperial cult	C LICINIVS CHO? FELIX MONNA OMNIBVS SVCC VRIS FELICITER VII Near a shrine.
G0102	Religion - Imperial cult	C LICINIVS FELIX D[1]Q TVM[---] Near a shrine.
G0107	Religion - Imperial cult	C SALVIVS OPTATVS Near a shrine.
G0106	Religion - Imperial cult	CLAVDI[---] Q MARCIY FELIX Near a shrine.
G0011	Religion - Imperial cult	Coh(orte) VII (or VI) (centuria) Ost(iensis) imp(erante) An(tonino) co(n)s(ulibus) L[a]eto et Ce riale sebarius Calpurnius, X. In a tabula ansata: "Calpurnius, night-watchman from the centuria of Ostiensis, from the seventh (or sixth) cohors, during the reign of Caracalla, in the year of consuls Laetus and Cerialis (215 AD), X". Sebarius = sebaciarius, night-watchman. The X means vota decennalia. In a shrine. •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker.
G0097	Religion - Imperial cult	Drawing "For the safety of our lord Severus Alexander, the pious, the happy, Augustus. We, the soldiers of the first cohort of the fire-fighters, the Severan, were stationed in these barracks for 30 days". In a shrine.
G0098	Religion - Imperial cult	Drawing ]a tutus \| ?um? sicinius [fide?]lis clodius floridianus \| mantius fel[i]x feliciter. In a shrine.
G0013	Religion - Imperial cult	Drawing Ceriale. A short way to indicate the year 215 AD, Cerialis being one of the two eponymous consuls. In a shrine. •Photograph.
G0099	Religion - Imperial cult	Drawing In a shrine.
G0100	Religion - Imperial cult	Drawing In a shrine. Lines 1-6 were written in a tabula ansata. This and the word solv(it?) indicate the fulfilment of a vow. The graffito was apparently dated (cos).
G0012	Religion - Imperial cult	Drawing Marius \| Anna \| VII Kal Maias (April 25th). In a shrine. •Photograph.
G0096	Religion - Imperial cult	IVLIVS FAVSTIN[---] MIL BUCHI[---] PRIMIGENIAD[---] Buchi[nator] is probably bucinator, a trumpeter. PRIMIGENIAD was written across the name Iulius Faustinus. In a shrine.
G0095	Religion - Imperial cult	M MIRENIVS IVLIVS BVCINATOR COH VII VIG Mirenius or Myrenius. Bucinator means trumpeter. In a shrine.
G0103	Religion - Imperial cult	SVLPICIVS SILVINVS NONAS FECIT Near a shrine.
G0251	Religion - Imperial cult	TMARCIVS INGIINVS SIIRVS DIIVORVM OMMO BONVS T. Marcius ingenu[u]s (or Ingenu[u]s) servus de{v}orum [h]om{m}o bonus. "T. Marcius Ingenu(u)s [a free man], slave of the deified Emperors, a good man". Note the intentional opposition between ingenuus and servus. •Photograph ICCD N14879
G0260	Religion - Traditional religion	Drawing and Greek text "Righteous Hermes (Mercurius), bring profit to Hektikos." •Photograph
G0358	Religion - Traditional religion	Drawing Idus Dec (?) \| XV Kal Nov (December 13th; October 18th). On the back wall of the niche of a lararium. •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker.
G0261	Religion - Traditional religion	Drawing MERCVR VLS P CO AES SOLVVIMVS Mercur(io) v(otum) l(ibens) s(olvit) or s(olverunt) ... About the fulfilment of a vow to Mercurius. •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5249 •Photograph ICCD N5253
G0085	Religion - Traditional religion	Drawing NEPTUNE [--] E •Photograph
G0199	Religion - Traditional religion	Drawing VT A[_ _ _ _ _ _ ]SIT PRO SALVTE SVA ET SVORVM XII KAL(ENDAS) AVG[u]STAS (July 21) PROMISIT VOTVM LVCCEIA PRIMITIVA FORTVNAE TAVRIA NENSI A woman named Lucceia Primitiva promises that she will thank a deity, Fortuna Taurianensis, when she and those who are dear to her will be in good health, after a danger which is mentioned in the first, mutilated line. It is unlikely that this Fortuna is the protective deity of Taurianum, a town in the south of Italy. More likely there is a relation with the cognomen Taurianus, that is documented in the Serapeum (III,XVII,4). •Photograph (only the last five rows can be seen on this photograph). •Photograph by Mary Jane Cuyler (high resolution; 2013).
G0349	Religion - Traditional religion	HERMAE On a brick of a pier of the main entrance to a building. Later covered with plaster. •Photograph.
G0135	Religion - Traditional religion	SATVR On a marble fragment.
G0421	Ships	•Photograph
G0036d	Ships	A boat. • Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5289
G0214	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0205	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0041	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0224	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0046	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0036e	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0321	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0248	Ships	A boat. •Photograph
G0169	Ships	A boat? •Photograph
G0494	Ships	A ship (or two ships above each other?). •Photograph ICCD N5295
G0428	Ships	A ship. •Photograph ICCD N14858
G0431	Ships	A ship. •Photograph ICCD N14862
G0496	Ships	A ship. •Photograph ICCD N5298
G0497	Ships	A ship. •Photograph ICCD N5307
G0481	Ships	A ship? •Photograph ICCD N5279
G0384	Ships	ABI "Go!" Next to a drawing of a ship.
G0365a-c	Ships	Drawing
G0177	Ships	Drawing A boat with full rigging. •Photograph
G0112	Ships	Drawing A boat. The short mast at one end of the boat indicates that it is a tow-boat. •Photograph
G0312	Ships	Drawing A boat. •Photograph Drawing A face on the prow can be viewed in two ways. Here the head is looking straight forward. •Photograph Drawing Here the head is looking to its right and slightly downwards. •Photograph
G0119	Ships	Drawing A person in a small boat. •Photograph
G0389	Ships	Drawing A prow of a boat.
G0394	Ships	Drawing A ship. •Photograph ICCD N5259 •Photograph ICCD N5296
G0392	Ships	Drawing Drawing A boat.
G0024	Ships	Drawing Near "boats drawn with a very light hand, with great attention given to the details of the keel and sails." •Photograph.
G0171	Ships	Part of a boat? •Photograph
G0036f	Ships	Possibly a boat. •Photograph
G0009	Ships	Possibly a ship's rigging. •Photograph.
G0036g	Ships	The prow of a boat. •Photograph
G0314	Ships	The prow of a boat. •Photograph
G0469	Ships	The prow of a boat. •Photograph ICCD N5254
G0170	Ships	The prow of a boat? •Photograph
G0207	Ships	The rigging of a boat? •Photograph
G0419	Towers, cranes	•Photograph
G0401	Towers, cranes	A crane. •Photograph
G0008	Towers, cranes	A crane? •Photograph.
G0017	Towers, cranes	A crane? •Photograph.
G0083	Towers, cranes	A drawing of a crane? •Photograph
G0018	Towers, cranes	A tower with a pyramidal shape, perhaps a crane, and the letters IRIIN. •Photograph.
G0159	Towers, cranes	A tower with a pyramidal shape, perhaps a crane. •Photograph
G0448	Towers, cranes	A tower. •Photograph ICCD N14854
G0478	Towers, cranes	A tower. •Photograph ICCD N5276
G0200	Towers, cranes	Drawing A structure looking like a tower or an obelisk, and the letters MAXI in a tabula ansata. •Photograph
G0201	Towers, cranes	Drawing A structure looking like a tower or an obelisk. •Photograph
G0315	Towers, cranes	Drawing A structure looking like a tower. •Photograph
G0476	Towers, cranes	Tallymarks next to a tower. •Photograph ICCD N5274
G0325	Unclassified texts	(ian/febr)VARIAS Either a name or a month. •Photograph
G0339	Unclassified texts	* + X X I I I X O •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5269
G0151	Unclassified texts	. . . . N I . . . . I I N On a mithraeum. The Greek letter psi may be in the upper left part. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution)
G0149	Unclassified texts	. . . . H I I I X I V On a mithraeum. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution)
G0515	Unclassified texts	[---] AVDACE The first letter is not certain. Perhaps the name Audax (dative, accusative or ablative) or the adjective.
G0275	Unclassified texts	[---] CISTI. IIXXI [---] LAVIAM [---] A VCIMI CACIIS DIO [---] SCIRE ESSEQV ADVTE •Photograph
G0057	Unclassified texts	[---]RDVS •Photograph
G0087	Unclassified texts	[---]YLL[---] [---]XXX\[---]
G0412	Unclassified texts	•Photograph
G0407	Unclassified texts	•Photograph
G0397	Unclassified texts	•Photograph
G0145	Unclassified texts	•Photograph
G0183	Unclassified texts	A few letters. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker.
G0272	Unclassified texts	A MARIT
G0356	Unclassified texts	A single line of text •Photograph.
G0364	Unclassified texts	AMA PVERVM
G0192	Unclassified texts	ANNA SX IIIV AKSA •Photograph
G0369	Unclassified texts	AVLA
G0283	Unclassified texts	BVBINNI
G0336	Unclassified texts	C N V _ M N A _ K A O P I R E •Photograph
G0051	Unclassified texts	C X G I I I I •Photograph
G0141	Unclassified texts	Drawing
G0140	Unclassified texts	Drawing
G0139	Unclassified texts	Drawing
G0128	Unclassified texts	Drawing
G0222	Unclassified texts	Drawing •Photograph
G0348	Unclassified texts	Drawing •Photograph.
G0218	Unclassified texts	Drawing A E V T V S •Photograph
G0062	Unclassified texts	Drawing From the floor of the latrine. •Photograph
G0155	Unclassified texts	Drawing Greek text •Photograph
G0025	Unclassified texts	Drawing Ianuarias?
G0076	Unclassified texts	Drawing N •Photograph
G0285	Unclassified texts	Drawing NIHILI PHPHOR •Photograph
G0146	Unclassified texts	Drawing On bricks.
G0138	Unclassified texts	Drawing This Greek text and this Greek text have been suggested for lines 4-6. •Photograph ICCD N5390
G0195	Unclassified texts	Drawing VIRTVS •Photograph
G0254	Unclassified texts	Drawing VITIASVA A reference to vices? •Photograph.
G0132	Unclassified texts	Drawing W T •Photograph
G0231	Unclassified texts	Dructus
G0032	Unclassified texts	ecare pod
G0003	Unclassified texts	EVT •Photograph.
G0444	Unclassified texts	First hand: LCCV \| Second hand: [o]MNIBVS VLAN[---]? •Photograph ICCD N14877
G0281	Unclassified texts	FVGII ORODIIRASIO DII SIICVS ICMI MII DVTI[---]CISIS MLE Line 2 was written in the right half of the graffito. •Photograph
G0295	Unclassified texts	GOMIIMIIMINI FVISSIIT
G0377	Unclassified texts	Greek text
G0152	Unclassified texts	Greek text
G0297	Unclassified texts	Greek text
G0292	Unclassified texts	Greek text
G0290	Unclassified texts	Greek text
G0273	Unclassified texts	Greek text
G0269	Unclassified texts	Greek text •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5407 (top)
G0156	Unclassified texts	Greek text Approximately 12 letters are missing at the start. The name of a person may have been here. The word may also belong to (part of) a hexametric phrase found elsewhere in Ostia: Drawing
G0271	Unclassified texts	Greek text In a tabula ansata. •Photograph •Photograph ICCD N5407 (bottom)
G0150	Unclassified texts	H I . . . . . . . . X On a mithraeum. •Photograph •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution)
G0148	Unclassified texts	I A N H C A S L I I A I I I V C C H O On a mithraeum. The Greek letter theta may be in the lower right part. •Photograph • Photographs by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution): general view \| detail of upper left part \| detail of lower right part
G0040	Unclassified texts	I I I V M A T I L L S I A I •Photograph.
G0337	Unclassified texts	I I V _ •Photograph
G0303	Unclassified texts	JALISVS SAALBIVS SAINIIEMIIIIA PEPERIT INSANVSAICAVEIE PIITVVQVIIDII CAVERNE
G0235	Unclassified texts	LHL •Photograph
G0039	Unclassified texts	M E T A T V •Photograph
G0058	Unclassified texts	MA •Photograph
G0239	Unclassified texts	Many letters. •Photograph
G0300	Unclassified texts	MORIIM SAN "The conduct ...".
G0376	Unclassified texts	NERONII EMAOPII NECA DIGNA PO A reference to the Emperor Nero?
G0038	Unclassified texts	O _ A N C R O •Photograph
G0517	Unclassified texts	PC
G0246	Unclassified texts	Possibly text. •Photograph
G0301	Unclassified texts	QVO NON FACITI INVRIAM About injustice?
G0142	Unclassified texts	ROMA
G0400	Unclassified texts	ROMA. •Photograph
G0383	Unclassified texts	ROMAN VS FELIX
G0086	Unclassified texts	S QVA
G0464	Unclassified texts	Text and lines. •Photograph ICCD N14880
G0247	Unclassified texts	Text and/or a drawing. •Photograph
G0327	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph
G0317	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph
G0430	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N14861
G0434	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N14865
G0436	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N14867
G0449	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N14868
G0465	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N14881 (turned 90 degrees to the left)
G0453	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5251
G0454	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5252
G0470	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5255
G0473	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5258
G0482	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5280
G0483	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5282
G0487	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5286
G0495	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5297
G0498	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5308
G0455	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5398
G0456	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5399
G0457	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5400
G0458	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5401
G0459	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5403
G0461	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5405
G0462	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5406
G0463	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5408
G0500	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5412
G0501	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5413
G0466	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph ICCD N5422
G0511	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph (high resolution).
G0514	Unclassified texts	Text. •Photograph by Jan Theo Bakker (high resolution).
G0489	Unclassified texts	Text? •Photograph ICCD N5288
G0504	Unclassified texts	Text? •Photograph ICCD N5416
G0289	Unclassified texts	Text •Photograph
G0157	Unclassified texts	Three (Greek?) letters. •Photograph
G0211	Unclassified texts	Three lines of (Greek?) text. •Photograph
G0164	Unclassified texts	Two lines of Greek (?) text. •Photograph
G0221	Unclassified texts	Two lines of Greek text. •Photograph
G0215	Unclassified texts	Two lines of Greek text. •Photograph
G0210	Unclassified texts	Two lines of text. •Photograph
G0050	Unclassified texts	V E I _ I •Photograph
G0048	Unclassified texts	V I F D •Photograph
G0047	Unclassified texts	V T R _ •Photograph
G0252	Unclassified texts	VATIITIIRII
G0181	Unclassified texts	XIA * •Photograph
G0516	Unclassified texts	XLVX Perhaps a number (but XV is not part of the Roman numerical system) or the word lux.
G0404	Unclassified texts	XV KAL A. •Photograph
G0122	Unclassified texts.	Drawing PERFIXI From perfigo, to pierce through? •Photograph
G0420	Unidentified objects	•Photograph
G0417	Unidentified objects	•Photograph
G0416	Unidentified objects	•Photograph
G0411	Unidentified objects	•Photograph
G0409	Unidentified objects	•Photograph
G0405	Unidentified objects	•Photograph
G0403	Unidentified objects	•Photograph
G0242	Unidentified objects	A drawing. •Photograph
G0243	Unidentified objects	A drawing. •Photograph
G0043	Unidentified objects	A few lines. •Photograph
G0206	Unidentified objects	A few lines. •Photograph
G0194	Unidentified objects	A few lines. •Photograph
G0173	Unidentified objects	A few lines. •Photograph
G0360	Unidentified objects	A few lines. •Photograph.
G0019	Unidentified objects	A few lines. •Photograph.
G0245	Unidentified objects	A rectangle. •Photograph
G0244	Unidentified objects	A rectangle. •Photograph
G0227	Unidentified objects	Concentric circles and some lines. •Photograph
G0111	Unidentified objects	Curved lines. •Photograph
G0328	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph
G0326	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph
G0323	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph
G0322	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph
G0320	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph
G0319	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph
G0318	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph
G0423	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph ICCD N14847
G0424	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph ICCD N14850
G0425	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph ICCD N14855
G0474	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph ICCD N5272
G0477	Unidentified objects	Drawing. •Photograph ICCD N5275
G0427	Unidentified objects	Drawing? •Photograph ICCD N14857
G0070	Unidentified objects	Drawing •Photograph
G0069	Unidentified objects	Drawing •Photograph
G0065	Unidentified objects	Drawing •Photograph
G0116	Unidentified objects	Drawing •Photograph
G0433	Unidentified objects	Drawings. •Photograph ICCD N14864
G0435	Unidentified objects	Drawings. •Photograph ICCD N14866 (turned 90 degrees?)
G0432	Unidentified objects	Drawings? •Photograph ICCD N14863
G0505	Unidentified objects	Drawings? •Photograph ICCD N5417
G0506	Unidentified objects	Drawings? •Photograph ICCD N5418
G0507	Unidentified objects	Drawings? •Photograph ICCD N5419
G0005	Unidentified objects	Grooves. •Photograph.
G0061	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph
G0238	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph
G0236	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph
G0447	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14848
G0438	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14852
G0439	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14870
G0440	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14871
G0441	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14873
G0442	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14875
G0443	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14876
G0450	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N14878 (turned 180 degrees?)
G0471	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N5256
G0488	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N5287
G0490	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N5291
G0491	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N5292
G0492	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N5293
G0493	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N5294
G0503	Unidentified objects	Lines. •Photograph ICCD N5415
G0234	Vessels	An amphora? •Photograph
G0361	Vessels	An amphora? •Photograph.
G0330	Vessels	Drawing An amphora. •Photograph
G0262	Word games	Drawing The beginning of a versus recurrens (palindrome) by Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 430 - after 489 AD): Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor ("Rome, your love, will suddenly collapse in disturbances").
G0110	Word games	Drawing This is a word-square and palindrome. The text can be read in four directions.
G0249	Word games	LITTIIRA PRIMA DOLIIT LVBIIT ALTIIRA TIIRTIA MITTIT QUARTA DOLIIT FACTI QUINTA HABIIT INVIDIAM Usually thought to be about the five vowels as exclamations: A is related to pain, E to happiness, I to being sent off (ire), O to pain, and U to jealousy or bearing a grudge. Lebek suggests a slightly different reading and interpretation: Littera prima dolet, iubet altera, tertia mittit, quarta docet, facti quinta habet invidiam. He also suggests that the five letters form a word. Littera prima dolet: a ("Ah!") iubet altera: s, pronounced as es ("Be!"), from esse tertia mittit: i ("Go!"), from ire quarta docet: n, pronounced as en ("See there!") facti quinta habet invidiam: e ("Alas!") The word is the vocative asine, i.e. blockhead, Dummkopf. Could it be that this is a Christian graffito? The letters do not describe stupidity. Nor is there a reason for the person who has just solved the riddle to feel stupid. Perhaps we should take them as serious statements, in which case we may remember a graffito from Rome: a drawing of a crucified man with the head of an ass, someone looking at him, and the text "Alexamenos worships his God". •Photograph ICCD E40728
G0250	Word games	PRIMA LITIIRA SIMILIS IIST QVARTII SIMILIS IIT QVINTA SIICVNDAII TIIRTI [---] CVM SIIXTA NOMINA NOMINA QVAIIS TA HOC VIIRSICVLO CITTIIRIIDII TAN According to Calza this riddle is about the six vowels, a e i o u y. For the third and fourth line Calza suggests Nomina \| quaes[i]ta hoc versiculo ci[to] red[das]. Della Corte saw traces of an s after rede. Lebek has shown that this interpretation is wrong. The riddle is a variation or incorrect version of a known verse: Prima sonat quartae, respondet quinta secundae, tertia cum sexta: nomen habebit avis ("The first sounds like the fourth, the fifth corresponds with the second, the third with the sixth: the bird will have a name"). The solution is turtur, i.e. turtle-dove. The problem with the interpretation of the Ostian graffito is the plural nomina. Lebek suggests that perhaps we should be thinking of more than one word: turtur, furfur, murmur, tortor etc., but he adds that a riddle with many answers is not a good riddle. Possibly this was a well-known riddle. In that case the hint nomen habebit avis was superfluous. The plural nomina may lead us to another word for dove, namely columba, the Christian dove (see e.g. Matthew 3,16; baptism of Christ). The first photograph below shows SIMILIS IIT QV and the second, CVM SIIXTA •Photograph •Photograph
G0263	Word games	ROMA Written near the beginning of the word game ROMA TIBI.