Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

Rix divided the Oscan inscriptions of Pompeii into four groups by type. The first
consists of inscriptions engraved in stone, and includes road-building inscriptions,
foundation and dedication inscriptions and the so-called mensa ponderaria (ST Po 1-
19). The second contains fragmentary stone and wall inscriptions, names of gods, graffiti
and alphabets: ST Po 20-33, ST Po 40-103. The third consists of painted inscriptions on
walls: the six eftuns inscriptions (ST Po 34-9, see map nr. 1-6) and the electoral
programmata (ST Po 40-50). The fourth comprises the tile stamps (tPo 1-43).
6.3.2. Meddices
The inscriptions of Pompeii provide us with a number of references to ineddices. The
title meddix tuticus, meddix pompeianus and ineddix by itself are attested.
A staighforward inscribed attestation of the ineddix tuticus is ST Po 7, Ve 15, Co
47, Pi ad 12E, SE 45 (1977) 326 (see map VI). Found on a travertine block of the
epistyle of the round Doric temple in the Triangular Forum. It is now dated to the second
century BC. 7"
ni(umsis). trebiis. tr(ebieis). med(dis). tüv(tiks). Zaamanaffed
Numerius Trebius son of Trebius meddix tuticus commissioned (this temple).
Two inscriptions probably attest the same meddix tuticus. First, ST Po 5, Ve 13, Co 44,
Bu 7, Pi 12 B, SE 45 (1977) 326. Found in the Street of the Merchants.
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