Ancient Roman Graffiti... LOL

[NJ Joe]

Didn't know people were so ####ed up 2000 years ago.

Graffiti from Pompeii

Some of these are truly epic.

[Cann0n]

I've seen more ####ed up graffiti at a day care.

[TheFuzz]

Artonius! Thine clothes are that of the wretched lower class! Ha!

I wish people still talked like that.

[NJ Joe]

Apollinaris, the doctor of the emperor Titus, defecated well here

Good to know, doc. thanks.

[kraffft]

My friend is an archaeologist.. he collects this stuff:

Pompeii has awesome graffiti, definitely (I also like "The man I am going to have dinner with is a barbarian."). Filthy frescoes too:

Priapus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've got a few from a pamphlet on graffiti on pottery from Athens, with some animal rape apparently.

It would be interesting to put together an ancient filth study between the Greeks and Romans vs. India. They're both totally filthy. I saw an Indian temple relief in a book earlier this semester with a guy having sex with a horse, and all these women are in it covering their eyes. It was weird because I thought they usually had sacred sexual stuff with nymphs and weird positions, but I guess they were very experimental.

Actually, there are so many different categories--

the lamps are really common, lots of variety:
File:LampArtifactDoggystyle.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

then you could get into literature (Aristophanes, Martial are filthy), sculpture, homosexual stuff (literature + iconography), screwing animals, shit jokes

the Pompeii brothel has tons of this stuff-- the rooms are labeled with the individual ladies' specialties, apparently.

Roman lead curse tablets are awesome too-- usually they're pissed off at someone:
Curse Tablets from Roman Britain

The magic stuff is pretty explicit too. A lot of Roman legionaries have these winged phallus rings, and they also put winged phalluses on warship rams. The idea is that "I'm gonna fly over there and rape you in the ass".

[sniffleless]

Roman graffiti???

[HerBDerb]

I wish graffiti today was that polite.

[frankie18]

i remember i saw the best graffiti ever in a smallish italian town called Arezzo. It had some epic, pic-worthy stuff. My favorite was a bunch of pink rabbits outlined in purple, no eyes, mouths, etc...just a bunch of pink rabbits. A 20 by 40 wall was covered with these rabbits all fucking in different ways. 3somes, 69ing, doggie, 3 doggie-ing one, cowboy/girl, everything! And in the middle, two very highlighted ones were missionary-ing it out with the words "fuck you all" above them.

The italians sure know how to graffiti...