Featured Graffiti: Figural Graffiti

What did ancient Romans like to draw on walls? It can't have been easy to scratch onto a vertical surface and into the plaster on a wall.

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Drawing of a horse from the Casa dei Quattro Stili

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This example appears to be someone teaching another how to draw a boat with banks of oars.

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Gladiators and their equipment, like this helmet, were popular images to draw.

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Messages and names were sometimes written in the shape of boats.

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This is the only known drawing of a camel from ancient Italy