The first hand on a Pompeian wall
graffiti writer · Pompeii, Italy · 1st century
Someone who scratched a line on the wall of the Basilica at Pompeii, the great hall used for law and business. Who it was is not known. This was before Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and buried the town.
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1st century · Scratched on the wall of the Basilica at Pompeii. Below it two other hands added replies. Where one hand ends and the next begins follows Diehl's reading; some scholars divide the lines differently. The spelling is as it stands on the wall.
May whoever reads this never read anything else again.
qui hoc leget, nuncquam posteac aliid legat.Graffito in the Basilica at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 598
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