Graffiti at Pompeii

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@CalMeacham

There are entire books published that presrerve the grafitti of the ancient Roman Empire, with Pompeii being a rich source, as it was so suddenly preserved. One piece supposedly says “Wall, I wonder that uou do not fall from the weight of all this writing.”

That’s in the linked list.

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1904: O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin.