Ricerc@Sapienza

The so-called ‘Casa del Moralista’ stands out from other houses in Pompeii on account of its summer triclinium’s parietal decoration; here, we find three metrical inscriptions which are unique in the Campanian city and rare in general. One elegiac couplet is found on each wall. These texts will be evaluated from a literary point of view, but also within their immediate environmental context, to understand whether their arrangement on the three walls of the room is random, or follows a logical order.

Riesame del titulus pictus formiano CIL, X 6076, alla luce della ripulitura della parete effettuata dalla Soprintendenza archeologica, ed edizione di un secondo titulus pictus formiano, tuttora inedito e ancora in situ, con elenco di militari