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        <editor>Rebecca Benefiel</editor>
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          <name>Hammad Ahmad</name>
          <name>Mackenzie Brooks</name>
          <name>Kyle Helms</name>
          <name>Sara Sprenkle</name>
          <name>Trevor Stalnaker</name>
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          <resp>Principle Contributor</resp>
          <name>Holly Sypniewski</name>
          <name>Scheithauer</name>
          <name>Holly Sypniewski</name>
          <date>2019-09-03</date>
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        <publisher>Ancient Graffiti Project</publisher>
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        <date>2026</date>
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                <placeName ref="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/433032">Pompeii</placeName>
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              Pompei (Napoli), Regio II.7.1, Campus ad amphitheatrum, col. LXI, stria 11
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      <div type="edition" xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="la"><ab><lb n="1" />&lt;:pars I&gt;<lb n="2" />S<lb n="3" /><space /><lb n="4" />Δ<lb n="5" /><lb n="6" />&lt;:pars II&gt;<lb n="7" />rotas<lb n="8" />opera <lb n="9" />tenet<lb n="10" />arepo<lb n="11" />sator<lb n="12" /><lb n="13" />&lt;:pars III&gt;<lb n="14" />A N O</ab></div>
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        <p>Textus secundum (13).  Contulerunt Benefiel et Sypniewski (AGP) a. 2019.&lt;br&gt;Tectorium huius tituli excisum est et in repositis translatum est. Nunc evanidum est (22).&lt;br&gt;Pars I: littera S maior omnibus aliis litteris, et &amp;#916;(?) leviter incisa est.  Utrum hi versus ad quinque versus infra pertineant dubitatur.&lt;br&gt;Pars II: unus de notissimis titulis Pompeianis. Saepe testimonium christianorum esse creditur, sed unum exemplum de multis ludis quadratis verborum (18),(21). Cf. CIL 04, 08297.&lt;br&gt;Pars II, v. 4: multi quid AREPO significet explicare conati sunt, e.g. verbum celticum (11), sententia in litteris singulis condita: A R(erum) E(xtremarum) P(rincipio) O(mni) (6). &lt;br&gt;Pars III: etiam L M O legi potest (23) et levius ceteris, ut videtur in imagine apud (22). Utrum hic versus ad quinque versus supra pertineat dubitatur.&lt;br&gt;Supra EDR127824 (SAVTRAN VALE). Idem nomen in stria 10 invenitur (EDR127823, SAVTRAN VA).&lt;br&gt;In eadem columna  EDR127816, EDR127817, EDR127818 (stria 5); EDR127819 (stria 6); EDR127820 (stria 6-10); EDR127821 (stria 6-7), EDR127822 (stria 7); EDR127823 (stria 10);  EDR167589 (stria 13); EDR127826, EDR127827 (stria 14); EDR127140, EDR127231, EDR127233, EDR127234 (stria 15); EDR167628 (stria 16-17)</p>
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        <p>(Five words that can be read horizontally or vertically, backward and forward)</p>
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        <p>Atti Pont. Ac. Rom. Arch., 12, 1936, p. 179-84 (A. Degrassi) - AE 1937 (1)&lt;br&gt;AE 1937, p. 11 s. n. 11 (2)&lt;br&gt;Rend. Ac. Arch. Nap., 17, 1937, p. 79-99 (M. Della Corte) - AE 1948 (3)&lt;br&gt;Rend. Ac. Arch. Nap., 19, 1938-1939, p. 3-32 (M. Della Corte) - AE 1948 (4)&lt;br&gt;Not. Sc., 64, 1939, p. 263-64, nr. 138-140 con foto (M. Della Corte) (5)&lt;br&gt;Mitt. Deutsch. Arch. Inst. (Roemisch.), 57, 1942, p. 250 (T. Valentiner) - AE 1945 (6)&lt;br&gt;Act. Ac. Ab., 15, 1945, p. 1-17 (J. Sundwall) - AE 1946 (7)&lt;br&gt;AE 1945, 0117 (8)&lt;br&gt;AE 1946, 0276 (9)&lt;br&gt;AE 1948, 0156 (10)&lt;br&gt;Mus. Helv., 5, 1948-1949, p. 16-59 (J. Carcopino) - AE 1949 (11)&lt;br&gt;AE 1949, 0112 (12)&lt;br&gt;CIL 04, 08623 con apografo et commentario (13)&lt;br&gt;Arch. Class., 17, 1965, p. 261-64 (M. Guarducci) (14)&lt;br&gt;Arch. Class., 19, 1967, p. 144 sgg. (M. Guarducci) (15)&lt;br&gt;Class. Rev., 21, 1971, p. 6-8 (G. Griffiths) (16)&lt;br&gt;ANRW 16.2, 1978, p. 1736-73 (M. Guarducci) (17)&lt;br&gt;A. Varone, Presenze Guidaiche e Cristiane a Pompei, Napoli 1979, p. 53-71 (18)&lt;br&gt;HD023014 (19)&lt;br&gt;Cryptologia, 27, 2003, p. 233-87 (R. M. Sheldon) (20)&lt;br&gt;The Muse at Play. Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry, München 2012, p 65-80 (R. Benefiel) (21)&lt;br&gt;A. Varone, Titulorum graphio exaratorum qui in CIL Vol. IV collecti sunt imagines, Roma 2012, vol. I, p. 144 con foto (22)&lt;br&gt;http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-EDR073638 (23)</p>
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        <p>Wordplay: Magic square</p>
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