Mosaic inscription from Lullingstone created by Ines Guth Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-04-18T11:46:08, ID there: HD021178 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00787 159164 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/787 Lullingstone, Roman Villa Museum mosaic mosaic incomplete None None None The mosaic beneath the inscription shows a young woman in the nude, Europa, riding sideways on Jupiter transformed into a bull. She is accompanied by two erotes, one leading the bull while the other pulling its tail. The scene is set against a white background, while a black section implies water. The inscription is written across the top of the scene, and both are framed by a plain guilloche in white and red. written with mosaic tiles 0.0-0.0 331-350 Lullingstone Roman villa at Lullingstone 51.3642 0.196368 no

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 Greek Greek-Latin Latin Multilingual Ancient Greek written in Latin script Latin written in Greek script personal messages / joke

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Invida si tauri vidisset Iuno natatusiustius Aeolias isset adusque domos

Text follows Wright 1950. Checked with photo by Guth 2024.

If jealous Juno had seen the swimmings of the bull, with more right would she have gone to the halls of Aeolus.

AE 1951, 0131. R.P. Wright, JRS 40, 1950, 117, Nr. 13; pl. 11,1. - AE 1951. https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2448.6 | RIB 2448, 6 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD021178 | HD021178 P. Cugusi, Carmi latini epigrafici della Britannia, Epigraphica 76, 2014, 355-407 J. Zarker, Studies in the Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Princeton 1958, 121. https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|appe|0292 | MQDQ https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/br22/?lang=en | CLEO br 22 https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-49600568 | EDCS-49600568 G. W. Meates, Lullingstone Roman Villa, London 1955, p. 34