The second hand on a Pompeian wall
graffiti writer · Pompeii, Italy · 1st century
Someone who scratched a retort just below another person's graffito on the wall of the Basilica at Pompeii. Who it was is not known. This was before Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 and buried the town.
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1st century · A reply added by another person just below the first graffito.
May the one who wrote the above never prosper.
nunquam sit salvos qui supra scripsit.Graffito in the Basilica at Pompeii · Diehl, Pompeianische Wandinschriften 598
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