An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum

This edition is a representative selection of the various types of inscriptions, from political manifestos to gladiatorial announcements, found in the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. These inscriptions, painted and incised on the walls of public and private buildings, document aspects of daily life in the first century CE. Inscriptions, particularly graffiti, were often written by less educated members of society, and as such provide a rare glimpse of common Latin.

Special Features

• Introduction to the inscriptions and their language, with bibliography
• Inscriptions with same page
  • vocabulary notes
  • full grammatical and historical commentary

• Abbreviations used in wall inscriptions
• Index of proper names
• Full vocabulary
• Facsimiles of twenty-four inscriptions