Hic Habitat Felicitas
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"Hic Habitat Felicitas" (English: Happiness Resides Here) is a rock carving found in Pompeii outside of a bakery rather than a brothel, as could be expected with Pompeii's reputation. It was an talisman for good luck, and is to show in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples), in the erotic collection called by the Bourbons "Gabinetto Segreto".
Cf. Giuseppe Fiorelli, Raccolta pornografica. Catalogo del Museo Nazionale di Napoli, 6, Napoli, 1866, p. 10, n° 73. Original at Napoli
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