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possibility is that they are the owners of the houses, where the tiles were used, which is
equally unconvincing. Comparison with the tile-stamps of the Pentri suggests that the
names could be those of the meddices tutici of Pompeii, used to date production. 18
However, no title appears on the Pompeian stamps.
A meddix Pompeianus is attested in ST Po 1, an inscription which records that two
aediles were authorized by the meddix Pompeianus to delimit a street. 719 The office
seems to be single and superior to that of the aediles. His name does not appear in the
inscription, because he is not the dedicator of the stone. As at Capua, where meddix
kapuans seems to have been the alternative designation for the Capuan nzeddix tuticus,
the title meddiz pompeianus was probably an alternative designation for the meddix
tuticus for Pompeii.
6.3.3. Aediles
We have six Oscan inscriptions mentioning aediles from Pompeii. The title does not
appear in any other town in pre-Roman Campania. The office appears in inscriptions as
aidil, aidil or aidilis (nom. pl. ). The aedilis inscriptions of Pompeii can be divided into
two groups. The first group is formed by two inscriptions in which pairs of aediles
delimit and pave streets. In the second group the aediles are recorded as donors and
dedicators. This group is made up of three inscriptions, one of which documents a pair
of aediles, the rest single ones.
71$ For list of names see section 2.4.2.
719 See map nr. 13.1 will deal with the inscription in detail when I come to the aediles
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