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I.12.3 Pompeii. Caupona di Sotericus or Caupona all’ Insegna di Roma.

Excavated 1914.

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I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Entrance.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Plaster on wall to east of door.

I.12.3 Pompeii.  December 2006.  Plaster on wall to east of door.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti and plaster on wall to west of door. The painted plaster above the graffito, on the right of the entrance doorway, used to show a large head of Minerva.

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti and plaster on wall to west of door.

The painted plaster above the graffito on the west (right) of the entrance doorway, used to show a large head of Minerva.

According to Varone and Stefani, to the right of the head of Minerva was a painted graffito, CIL IV, 7430, but no longer visible

Between the two windows, but now no longer visible, were two painted graffiti, CIL IV, 7438 and CIL IV, 7439.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’erma di Bretschneider. p. 149-153.

 

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these are recorded as

 

Fuscum

o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) aed(ilem)     [CIL IV, 7430].

 

A(ulum) Trebium

aed(ilem)  

o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)    [CIL IV, 7438]


A(ulum) Vettium Firmum aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis)     [CIL IV, 7439]

I.12.3 Caupona di Sotericus. Graffiti on the wall to west of door.

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Graffiti on the wall to west of door.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Election graffito on wall to west of door now only partly readable. It originally read A(ulum) Trebium aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) Soteric(us). [CIL IV 7432] (“I, Sotericus, ask that you make Aulus Trebius (Valens) aedile.”) Written in the “O” was the small obscene graffito: Futui coponam [CIL IV 8442] See Dobbins, J & Foss, P., 2008. The World of Pompeii. New York: Routledge. (p. 481)

I.12.3 Pompeii.  December 2007. 

Election graffito on wall to west of door now only partly readable.

It originally read A(ulum) Trebium aed(ilem) o(ro) v(os) f(aciatis) Soteric(us).  [CIL IV 7432]

(“I, Sotericus, ask that you make Aulus Trebius (Valens) aedile.”)

Written in the “O” was the small obscene graffito:

Futui coponam    [CIL IV 8442]

See Dobbins, J & Foss, P., 2008. The World of Pompeii. New York: Routledge. (p. 481)

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of “O.” See Dobbins, J & Foss, P., 2008. The World of Pompeii. New York: Routledge. (p. 481)

I.12.3 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of  “O.”

See Dobbins, J & Foss, P., 2008. The World of Pompeii. New York: Routledge. (p. 481)

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Counter.

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2007. Counter.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. May 2006. Front of counter.

I.12.3 Pompeii. May 2006. Front of counter.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Detail of front of counter.

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Detail of front of counter.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1. Caupona. Looking north at rear of counter.

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, looking north at rear of counter.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 1. Caupona. Looking south.

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2005. Room 1, looking south.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 1. Caupona. Portrait of dog on pillar.

I.12.3 Pompeii. December 2006. Room 1, portrait of dog on pillar.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 1. Caupona. Looking south at west wall.

I.12.3 Pompeii. May 2006. Room 1., looking south towards west wall.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1. Caupona courtyard. West wall.

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, west wall of courtyard. 

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1. Caupona courtyard. West wall, looking north.

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, west wall of courtyard. Looking north.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1. Caupona courtyard. Looking north east.

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, courtyard. Looking north-east.

 

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1. Caupona courtyard. Table.

I.12.3 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, table in courtyard. 

 

 

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