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Plate IRoman Empire & EuropeSATORAREPOTENETOPERAROTASsator
No. 23 · Special edition

The SATOR square

a Latin word square

Five Latin words in a five-by-five square that reads the same forwards and backwards, horizontally and vertically — found at Pompeii, Cirencester and Dura-Europos.

Earliest record
Pompeii graffito, before AD 62
Source
Wikipedia, “Sator Square”; Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
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A square that reads every way

A five-by-five Latin word square — SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS — that reads the same forwards and backwards, horizontally and vertically. Examples include a Pompeii graffito from before AD 62 and another from AD 50–79, one found at Cirencester in 1868, and one at Dura-Europos from about AD 200.

Source
Wikipedia, Sator Square
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II · FolkScratched on walls, written on paperMedieval to early modern Europe›III · ModernTwenty-five letters, exactWishlore, today›
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