«De grano»: spunti esegetici intorno ad un indovinello poetico tardolatino (Aenigm. Bern. 12 = Anth. Lat. 481 Riese2, 67-72) .

The aim of this paper is to analyze the text and the hermeneutic strategies of a poetic riddle from the Aenigmata Bernensia – a corpus of poetic riddles composed by an anonimous author (VII-VIII century A.D.) – which involves a mysterious ‘catabasis’: even if the solution is revealed already in the title (De grano), it is possible to find further allusions to other famous mythical catabasis as well as christian symbologies which could allow us to discover other potential hidden solutions to the riddle.