Iscrizioni in contesto: Pompei, insula IX 8

This article presents the results of a study in context of the wall inscriptions at Pompeii, focusing on the insula I 8. By using a pal-impsestic approach, adopted also, for the insula II 4 (Praedia Iuliae Felicis) by Christopher Parslow as well, we analysed with an integrated way not only the epigraphic category of the inscribed documents, tituli picti and graffiti, discovered during the nineteenth-century excavations (1879-1880), but also their topographical distribution and their relationship with places, things ad people. In this contribution some cases-study exemplifies the informative potential of the reading-in-context method: it allows to investigate, starting from the content and the position of the texts, what relationship they had with the surrounding environment and what clues they can offer to rebuild its social life.