VIII.5.31 Pompeii. Corner Shop. Linked to VIII.5.30.

Excavated 1819, 1882. (Strada dei Teatri 1).

Via dei Teatri, Pompeii. West side. December 2018.

Looking south-west from junction with Via dell’Abbondanza towards VIII.5.30 and VIII.5.31, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Entrance on Via dei Teatri, with Via dell’Abbondanza on the right.

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. May 2005. Entrance. 

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Graffiti painted in red on north side of entrance.

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Graffiti painted in red on north side of entrance.

According to Varone and Stefani, it was CIL IV 61.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.370 & Tav. XXXb)

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

M(arcum)  Marium

aed(ilem)  faci(atis)

oro  vos        [CIL IV 61]

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. December 2007. Remains of graffiti painted in red on south side of entrance.

According to Varone and Stefani, it was CIL IV 62.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. (p.371 & Tav. XXXI b)

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

[C(aium)]  Nunidi(um)  IIv(irum)  [3]        [CIL IV 62]

VIII.5.31 Pompeii.  c.1830. Drawing by Gell of wording in red, on stone near angle (corner?) of house of Fuscus.

See Gell, W. Sketchbook of Pompeii, c.1830.

See book from Van Der Poel Campanian Collection on Getty website http://hdl.handle.net/10020/2002m16b425

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. 1841. Remains of Oscan graffiti on south side of entrance.

See Lepsius, C. R., 1841. Inscriptiones Umbricae et Oscae quotquot adhuc repertae sunt omnes, tav XXII,7.

According to Antonini at VIII.5.31 Via dei Teatri, western side, on the pillar on the left (second and third blocks from below) are faint disconnected traces of the Oscan inscription (above there was CIL IV 62); on the corner (remains of) CIL IV 61.

See Antonini, R., 2007. Quaderni di Studi Pompeiani 1/2007 Associazione Internazionale Amici di Pompei, p. 59 fig. 3b, p. 63 fig. 6.

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. 1841. Description by Lepsius of Oscan graffiti, which he attributes to Herenni, found on the Via dei Teatri, on the House of the Austrian Emperor Francis II.

See Lepsius C. R., 1841. Inscriptiones Umbricae et Oscae quotquot adhuc repertae sunt omnes, tav XXII,7.

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. 1837. Drawing of inscription by Guarini.

See Guarini R., 1837. Fasti Duumvirali di Pompei. Napoli: Mirandi, p. 22 n.8.

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. 1854. Inscription as published in 1854 by Fiorelli.

See Fiorelli G., 1854. Monumenta epigraphica Pompeiana: inscriptionum oscarum apographa, p. 10, Tav. VII, 1.

VIII.5.31 Pompeii. 1856. Inscription and interpretation published in 1856 by Fiorelli.

See Fiorelli G., 1856. Monumenta epigraphica Pompeiana: inscriptionum oscarum apographa, p. xxxiii, VII, 1.