Electoral inscription

Originally part of a wall along "a street which led from the gate towards the town", that is to say Via Consolare, the plasterwork features an exhortation to vote for two candidates for aedile, M. Cerrinius Vatia and A. Trebius Valente. We come across the latter, who was elected in 71 A.D., again in 75 A.D. as candidate for the duumvirate. Other similar electoral messages with the same two candidates' names were found along Via del Foro. Bibliography: PAH I, p. 162; Rosini, Dissertationis Isagogicae ad Herculanensium volumina, Neapoli 1797, pars I. tav. XI; CIL IV, 123 e 124

Fonte: MANN
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