So far, excavators have found more than three thousand such electoral inscriptions in Pompeii. Writing election slogans was the job of signwriters, also known as scriptores, and they worked alongside lanternarius, the lantern-bearers, because slogan writing was a night task. The electoral propaganda got written in red or black ink and usually goaded the people of Pompeii to vote for one candidate or the other. We can further categorize General graffiti as philosophies of life (sometimes poetic!) or offending scrawls and insults. There are two kinds of graffiti on the walls of Pompeii’s houses and other establishments – electoral propaganda or general graffiti. Now that it has become a tourist destination welcoming 2.5 Million visitors annually, the travelers look forward to the graffiti as well. One of the first things that struck the excavators is the graffiti on the Pompeii houses’ walls. The city remained buried under volcanic ash, till a surveying engineer discovered it in 1748. Mt Vesuvius had erupted, destroying the whole town of Pompeii and killing around ten thousand people. This statement is most accurate for the ruins of Pompeii, located at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius near Rome. Check them out for yourself.Someone once said, “historians first learn to write on the walls.” You can drink Falernian for four coins.”Īnd whole lot more. Hedone says, “You can get a drink here for only one coin. Love dictates to me as I write and Cupid shows me the way, but may I die if god should wish me to go on without you I don’t want to sell my husband, not for all the gold in the world
If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog Lesbianus, you defecate and you write, ‘Hello, everyone!’ĭefecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy Gaius Valerius Venustus, soldier of the 1st praetorian cohort, in the century of Rufus, screwer of women On June 15th, Hermeros screwed here with Phileterus and Caphisus. Restitutus says: “Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates”.Īt Nuceria, look for Novellia Primigenia near the Roman gate in the prostitute’s district. It’s Rome, after all, so there’s no shortage of, um, intimacy: It’s safe to say that 2016 American architecture, should we all disappear tomorrow, would provide nothing more than various pictures of misshapen dicks and a healthy dose of “INSERT NAME sucks APPENDAGE.”Īnd so, I share some of my personal favorite finds from historic Pompeii: Obviously a bunch of these transcriptions were placed there without the foresight of it potentially being shared on a glowing box interconnected with various other glowing boxes throughout the world. This revelation really makes you wonder how our generation will be remembered. After reading some of the below, I can now see why. I recall seeing some graffiti - mainly the ones depicted by pictures - but failed to see any translations of other marks. I had the pleasure of visiting Pompeii and The Herculaneum two summers ago. With that, I’m excited to share something I stumbled across on Reddit the other day.Īccording to a professor’s studies, he has translated areas of graffiti throughout the city of Pompeii.
merely because I know that on a boring day of scrolling through my feeds, there’s at least a chance I may walk away learning something for the day provided that something isn’t the new-found knowledge of a friend’s dating life or what another friend had for dinner. So I tend to keep tabs on a bunch of history items - subreddits, History Channel accounts on social, Historic Photos, etc. Similar to how someone would love the guitar without wanting to be a rock star. A closer look at graffiti from the ruins of Pompeii shows that humans have not evolved much over time.
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