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@ou_phrontis

I can't access the physical volume, but sadly the major databases (AGP, EDR, EDBCS) don't seem to have this precisely.

4.8792 seems to document one grouping of the many graffiti from the "campus ad amphitheatrum" (Grande Palestra = II.7.1), which is often confused with the so-called "Gladiators' Barracks" (Quadriportico del Teatro = VIII.7.16), but no bread: http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/results?global=8792&sort_by=relevance

Here's everything the AGP has from Pompeii and Herculaneum on bread: http://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/results?global=bread&sort_by=relevance

@ou_phrontis

but I should caveat all the above that AGP is not yet comprehensive for Pompeii, and as EDR relies on AGP for graffiti, EDR probably isn't either. I'm not clear on how comprehensive for the graffiti EDBCS is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it lags in this area as well.

That the meme cites an inscription number from the big palaestra near the *amphitheater* (an area that AGP has surveyed) but attributes it to the "Gladiators' Barracks" near the *theater* does raise some concern.

@ou_phrontis

Although, as common as that mistake seems to be (naturally enough), it doesn't disqualify it.

If the bread inscription has disappeared (as many have) since it was collected for CIL, AGP will not have found it during their survey.

@ou_phrontis

For anyone who stumbles across this thread and is not familiar with the acronyms for the databases I used above:

AGP = Ancient Graffiti Project: http://ancientgraffiti.org

EDR = Epigraphic Database Roma: http://www.edr-edr.it

EDBCS = Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss-Slaby: http://www.manfredclauss.de/

@telliott @pompei79 And I can't find that volume of the CIL.