Women of Pompeii

Women of Women of PompeiiPompeii

Pompeii:

“pulcherrimarum clades terrarum”

Pompeii and Vesuvius

Pompeii

House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii

House of Menander

Satia and Petronia support and ask you to elect Marcus Casellius

and Lucius Albucius aediles. May we always

have such citizens in our colony!

I wonder, O, wall, that you have not fallen in ruins from supporting the stupidities of so many scribblers.

Vote for Lucius Popidius Sabinus; his grandmother worked

hard for his last election and is pleased

with the results

Claudius’ little girl-friend is working for his election as duovir

Graffiti: Politics

Alfia Quarta, daughter of

Publius, had a bath for

women built from the

ground up. She fitted it

out with variegated stone and supplied a

bronze basin with a brazier and a sitting

area.

Inscriptions: Public Works

Mamia, daughter of Publius, holder of a public priestly office, to the tutelary spirit of Augustus, on her own land and at her own expense.

Naevoleia Tyche, freedwoman of Lucius, for herself and for C Gaius Munatius Faustus, member of the Augustan college and district magistrate, to whom the city council with the assent of the populace granted an honorific chair on account of his services. This monument Naevoleia Tyche made for her own freed men and women and for those of Gaius Munatius Faustus, during her own lifetime.

Inscriptions: Public Works

Inscriptions: Public WorksEumachia, daugher of Lucius,

holder of a public priestly office, in her own name and in that of

her son Marcus Numistrius Fronto built a porch, a covered

corridor, and a colonnade dedicated to the Augustan

Concord and to Pietas, at her own expense. The same woman

dedicated it. To Eumachia, daughter of Lucius holder of a public

priestly office, by the fullers.

On the 15th of July earrings deposited with Faustilla. For a [loan] of 2 denarii she deducted a fee of an as.

Graffiti: Business

In the property of Julia Felix, daughter of Spurius, there are for rent a bath, shops, sheds, and upper rooms, from 15 August next for five years running until 15 August 5 years hence. In the consulships of Lucius Duvius Avitus and Publius Clodius Thrasea (i.e., 56 AD) Decimus Volcius Thallus, wrote at the request of Umbricia Ianuaria that she had received from Caecilius Iucundus a sum of 11039 sesterces from her auction, less his fee.

The weaver Successus loves the inkeeper's slave girl, Iris by name. She doesn't care for him, but he begs her to take pity on him. Written by his rival. So long.

Graffiti: Love (or at least sex)

[Answer by the rival:] Just because you're bursting with envy, don't pick on a handsomer man, a lady-killer and a gallant.

[Answer by the first writer:] There's nothing more to say or write. You love Iris, who doesn't care for you.

Anybody in love, come here. I want to break Venus' ribs with a club and cripple the goddess'

loins. If she can pierce my tender breast, why can't I break

her head with a club?

[A prostitut

e's sign:] I

am yours for 2 asses cash.


Take your lewd looks and flirting eyes off another man's wife, and

show some decency on your

face!

Arphocras hic cum Drauca bene futuit denario. Here Harpocras has had a good

fuck with Drauca for a denarius.

Virgula Tertio suo: indecens

es. Virgula to her

Tertius: you are one horny lad!

Myrtis bene felas. Myrtis, you do great blow

jobs.


Vibius Restitutus here slept all

alone and

longed for his

Urbana.

“bikini girls”

thermopolium

http://www.benoa.net/italy/pompeii/index.html

Food-warmer

A Pompeian Brothel

A Pompeian Brothel

A Pompeian Brothel

A Pompeian Brothel

Specialty advertisements?

House of Julia Felix

House of Julia Felix: Triclinium

House of Julia Felix: Triclinium

House of the Vetii

House of the Vetii

Entrance to the house of the Vetii

Villa of the Mysteries

The home of an elite family, which shows a women’s ritual initiation in one of its rooms:






Oplontis: Luxury

Documents

Women of Pompeii