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Fun article that I've seen posted around: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/G

Fun article that I've seen posted around: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...

sorokod 7y ago
Great but where are the Latin originals?
- thaumasiotes 7y ago
  Where's the Latin original in this piece? There's a pretty nice photo, but it's not easy to read, even magnified. And the photo cuts off before the end of the stylus.
  - codedokode 7y ago
    I was able to recognise familiar words like FORTUNA, LONGA VIA, MEMORIUM, SACCULUS (sack).
    - thaumasiotes 7y ago
      Yeah, AB URBE ..... ...US TIBI .R.TUM .../ .......UM .UI H.B..S M.MOR..M NOST/ .... SI FORTUNA . ... ....... POSSEM / ....... UT.. LONGA VIA ..N SACCULUS EST .ACU/ isn't exactly my idea of legible Latin text, and much of that is still guessing. I wouldn't have read LONGA without your prompting it. And since the noun is memoria, I'd bet the inscription says MEMORIAM, not MEMORIUM. Not that the picture shows it; those two letters appear to have been totally lost.
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- sorokod 7y ago
  A bit of a tangent, I went to the Pompeii exhibition in the British museum and having seen the goat statue thought that Romans were not "just like us"