Apollinaris 'pooped well here'
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 27). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: Before 79 CE
Region: House of the Gem, Herculaneum
Workbook date-sort bounds: unknown to 79 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A graffito identifies Apollinaris as the physician and enslaved man of Titus and commemorates a successful bowel movement.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
The text names a physician described as enslaved.
What remains uncertain
The named subject need not be the writer. One inscription gives no evidence of copying or widespread adoption.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria