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Identification

Reference as: MPL00727
Title Erotic graffito about Crescens
Trismegistos-No. 569410

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, Domus Tiberiana, ambiente V, parete M
Latitude 41.8895
Longitude 12.4874
Current Location Roma, Domus Tiberiana
Inventory number
Current Location Details ambiente V, parete M
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type wall
Material plaster
State of Preservation
Dimensions

width: 47.0 cm

height: 25.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 11.0
Execution Technique graffito
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Text

Function personal messages / erotic
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations


CRESCES ascia
QVISQVEMEAMFVTVITRIVALIS
AMICAMILLV.SECRET[]SMO..IBVS
VRSVSEDAT

Cresces ((ascia))
quisque meam futuit rivalis
amicam, illuṃ secret[i]s moṇṭibus
ursus edat.

Cresces ((ascia)) quisque meam futuit rivalis amicam,
illuṃ secret[i]s moṇṭibus ursus edat.
Apparatus

l.1 reg., orig. Cresces

Text follows Castren and Lilus, picture checked by Orlandi in 2016.

Main Translation

Translation Crescens, whatever rival shags my lover, may a bear devour him in some hidden mountain.
Citation Chiara Cenati

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameCrescens

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 71 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology

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Editing History

Created 2025-12-17, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:13:08, ID there: EDR158804
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2023-12-07 10:13
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-09-03 13:27
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-12-16 12:02
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-12-16 12:10
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-12-16 12:16
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-12-16 12:17
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-17 14:01
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-17 14:02
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