Featured Graffiti: Fun Graffiti
The ancients had fun with words by writing their names in creative ways, inventing word puzzles, and adding pictures to enhance their words.
R O M A
O L I M
M I L O
A M O R
(This is a word square that can be read left to right,
or right to left, and both up and down.
It plays on the fact that Roma spelled backwards is Love)
Labyrinthus
Hic habitat
Minotaurus
The labyrinth.
The Minotaur lives here
(A drawing of a labyrinth is in the middle of this graffito)
[Ser]pentis lusus si qui sibi forte notavit,
Sepumius iuvenis quos facit ingenio,
spectator scaenae sive es studiosus equorum:
sic habeas [faci]les se[mp]er ubiq[ue deos]
If someone by chance has noticed the games of the serpent, which the young man Sepumius cleverly made, if you are an audience member at the theater or a fan of race horses, may you always and everywhere have the gods on your side.
(This message was written in the shape of a snake.)