Names and greetings arranged as ships
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 26). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: Before 79 CE
Region: House of Triptolemus, Pompeii
Workbook date-sort bounds: unknown to 79 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Letters form a vessel: Pompeian names and greetings have a counterpart in a FELICITER-shaped ship at Herculaneum.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
Several names and greetings are arranged as ships at Pompeii; an independently recorded FELICITER-shaped ship at Herculaneum broadens the comparison.
What remains uncertain
The general text-as-ship device is stronger than a claim about Crescens as a widely copied tag. Who drew each one and whether they copied each other remain unknown.
Candidate-index family 14: Names and greetings arranged as ships
The workbook groups records 26 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: Before 79 CE
Region: House of Triptolemus, Pompeii
Shortlist uncertainty: The general text-as-ship device is stronger than a claim about Crescens as a widely copied tag. Who drew each one and whether they copied each other remain unknown.
Workbook revision note: Broadened from the Crescens tag to the independently attested graphic device