Palindromes date back at least to 79 CE, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year.

On the left is an apsidal mausoleum with an altar built against the apse: on the left wall a surviving graffito reading " domus Petri " either hints at Peter having been buried here or testifies to the belief at the time the graffito was written that Peter was buried here.

* Quintus Bruttius Balbus, a candidate for duumvir at Pompeii, mentioned in a political graffito.

As for the Year 27 hieratic graffito at Horemheb's Funerary temple at Medinet Habu and the Year 59 date from the inscription of Mes, Van Dijk argues that the first date likely inaugurated a statue of Horemheb during Year 27 of Ramesses II or III in Horemheb's temple while the latter date of Mes " can hardly be taken seriously, and indeed is not taken at face value by even the staunchest supporters of a long reign " for Horemheb since there was no standard Egptian practise of including the years of all the rulers between Amenhotep III and Horemheb as Wolfgang Helck makes clear.

His only known date is a Year 1, I Peret day 2 graffito in the tomb of Kyenebu at Thebes.

While Sanakht's existence is attested by a mastaba tomb and a graffito, among other objects, his position as the founder of the Third Dynasty, as recorded by Manetho and the Turin Canon, has been seriously undermined by recent archaeological discoveries at Abydos.

from trash dumps ; a large quantity of teak wood, black pepper, coconuts, beads made of precious and semi-precious stones, cameo blanks ; “ a Tamil Brahmi graffito mentioning Korra, a South Indian chieftain ”; evidence that “ inhabitants from Tamil South India ( which then included most of Kerala ) were living in Berenike, at least in the early Roman period ”; evidence that the Tamil population implied the probable presence of Buddhist worshippers ; evidence of Indians at another Roman port 300 km north of Berenike ; Indian-made ceramics on the Nile road ; a rock inscription mentioning an Indian passing through en route ; “ abundant evidence for the use of ships built and rigged in India ”; and proof “ that teak wood ( endemic to South India ), found in buildings in Berenike, had clearly been reused ”( from dismantled ships ).

The few contemporary attestations from his reign include the aforementioned graffito in Seti I's Abydos temple, an ostracon from Umm el-Qa ' ab, an affiliation at Karnak and his presumed burial – which consists of a gilded coffin with a royal uraeus and a Mummy, found in an antechamber of Psusennes I's tomb at Tanis.

" Nevertheless, the gladiators themselves were prone to boast: A graffito at Pompeii shows the retiarius Antigonus, who claims a ridiculous 2, 112 victories, facing a challenger called Superbus, who has won but a single fight.

A key graffito located at the entrance to the Speos of Horemheb at Gebel el-Silsila depicts Bay standing in a pose of adoration directly behind Siptah, who is making an offering to Amun ; a following inscription in the graffito reads:

Siptah himself is last attested sometime in his 6th regnal Year on a graffito located at the South Temple of Buhen.

Smendes ' nominal authority over Upper Egypt is attested by a single inscribed stela found in a quarry at Ed-Dibabiya, opposite Gebelein on the right bank of the Nile as well as a separate graffito inscription on an enclosure Wall of the Temple of Monthu at Karnak dating from the reign of Tuthmose III.

Ancient Pompeii graffito caricature of a politician.

The ink graffito reads Year 27, first Month of Shemu day 9, the day on which Horemheb, who loves Amun and hates his enemies entered the temple for this event.

The only surviving work which may be in his own hand is a graffito on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, and only one contemporary mention of his character is known, in a letter to Duke Ercole I of Ferrara.

The second, called by some " tomb of the Innocentiores " ( a burial club which owned it ), has a refined stucco ceiling, Latin inscriptions in Greek characters, and a graffito with the initials of the Greek words for " Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour ".

It is traditionally believed that Horemheb's highest year-date is likely attested in an anonymous hieratic graffito written on the shoulder of a now fragmented statue from his mortuary temple in Karnak which mentions the appearance of the king himself, or a royal cult statue representing the king, for a religious feast.

The most celebrated graffito attributed to King Mob was the slogan which was painted along a half-mile section of the wall beside the tube ( railway ) commuter route into London between Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park stations in west London:

A still from Murder by Decree showing the Goulston Street graffito containing the word Juwes, which is portrayed erroneously as a Freemasonry | Masonic term.

" SURRENDER DOROTHY " is a famous special effect used in the movie The Wizard of Oz, which later attained local fame as a graffito in the Washington, D. C metropolitan area.

His 8th Regnal Year is attested in a graffito which names the then serving High Priest of Amun, Ramessessnakht.

The word Eternity was a graffito tag which had its origins in Melbourne, Australia.

More impressive are the number of objects which associate Psusennes II together with his successor, Shoshenq I, such as an old statue of Thutmose III which contains two parallel columns of texts – one referring to Psusennes II and the other to Shoshenq I – a recently unearthed block from Tell Basta which preserves the nomen of Shoshenq I together with the prenomen of Psusennes II, and a now lost graffito from Theban Tomb 18.

This is confirmed by a Pompeian graffito which calls 6 February 60 a Sunday, even though by modern reckoning it is a Wednesday.

Thus this graffito used the daylight naming convention of Valens whereas the nighttime naming convention of Valens agrees with the modern astrological reckoning, which names the day after the ruler of the first daylight hour.

"), a popular graffito which began to appear on the walls of the buildings of the Greek cities in the 1960s, illustrating the growing protest against the conditions that led to the assassination of Lambrakis.

It is believed that Ramesses ruled into his Year 29 since a graffito records that the High Priest of Amun Piankhy returned to Thebes from Nubia on III Shemu day 23 — or just 3 days into what would have been the start of Ramesses XI's 29th regnal year.

The so-called " Elvis Rock " graffito beside the A44 road in Ceredigion was originally written with the word " Elis " by two of his supporters in the 1962 by-election, and subsequently altered to read " Elvis ".

Above it on the wall was a graffito in chalk commonly held to have read: " The Juwes are the men that Will not be Blamed for nothing ".

Graffiti and graffito are from the Italian word graffiato (" scratched ").

He may have joined the Gülşenî sufi order ; evidence for this claim comes from his intimate knowledge of its lodge in Cairo and from a graffito referring to himself as " Evliya-yı Gülşenî " ( Evliya of the Gülşenî ).

The satirical Alexamenos graffito is believed to be the earliest known representation of Jesus.

The satirical Alexamenos graffito is believed to be the earliest known representation of Jesus.

The graffito found on Papa India's P3 desk was analysed by a handwriting expert during the investigation to determine who might have written it, but this could not be determined and the public inquiry members eventually dismissed it as irrelevant.

Instructions have been given by the owners of the Virginia Kidd Literary Agency that this last graffito never be removed or painted over, and that the cabinet itself be retrieved in the event that the agency move to new quarters.

* Most of the symbols are " carefully executed ", but one appears to be a " random graffito ".

This also fits in well with Kenneth Kitchen's recently published suggestion that Late Ramesside Letter 41 ( not 62 ) ( Wente, 75f ; cf 15 ) with reference to West Theban graffito No. 1393 likely shows that the Whm-Mswt era reached into a Year 12 ( or Year 30 proper of Ramesses XI.

* " Mademoiselle Nobs " from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii ( 1971 ) who " sings " a song with the band.

Ancient Rome | Roman folding doors at Pompeii ( 1st century Common Era | CE ).

) in the ruins of Pompeii, and others at Herculaneum, were completed in buon fresco.

The term graffiti referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.

The earliest known Roman amphitheatre was built at Pompeii by Sullan colonists, around 70 BCE.

It may have been added to mend a break in antiquity or after, or the result of a conversion from an original amphora form ( paralleled by a similar blue-glass cameo vessel from Pompeii )-it was definitely attached to the bottom from at least 1826.

The well preserved ruins of the ancient town often are compared to the spectacular ruins at Pompeii in Italy.

Excavated in 1893, the year of the silver wedding anniversary of Italy's King Humbert and his wife, Margherita of Savoy, who have supported archaeological fieldwork at Pompeii.

* The painting " Alexander the Great confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos ", detail of mosaic floor decoration from Pompeii, Italy is made.

* Pompeii the city at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, is heavily damaged by a strong earthquake.

Suburban villas on the edge of cities were also known, such as the Middle and Late Republican villas that encroached on the Campus Martius, at that time on the edge of Rome, and which can be also seen outside the city walls of Pompeii.

The Romans invented the seaside villa: a vignette in a frescoed wall at the house of Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii still shows a row of seafront pleasure houses, all with porticos along the front, some rising up in porticoed tiers to an altana at the top that would catch a breeze on the most stifling evenings ( Veyne 1987 ill. p 152 )

It was considered a divinity of the Genius type at the time of the eruption of 79 AD: it appears under the inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in the decorative frescos of many lararia, or household shrines, surviving from Pompeii.

Spoons from Pompeii displayed at Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Evidence of furniture survives from the Neolithic Period and later in antiquity in the form of paintings, such as the wall Murals discovered at Pompeii ; sculpture, and examples have been excavated in Egypt and found in tombs in Ghiordes, in modern day Turkey.

Other early examples include the basilica at Pompeii ( late 2nd century BC ).

* Karl Jakob Weber ( 1712 – 1764 ), Swiss architect and engineer ; lead first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae

O ' Brien continued to work with Merian C. Cooper at RKO on a number of projects including the epic The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1935 ) and The Dancing Pirate ( 1936 ), which was O ' Brien's first Technicolor production.

The success of the film version of Up Pompeii in 1971 saw British exhibitors vote him the ninth most popular star at the British box office that year.

A 19th-century reproduction of a Greek bronze of Adonis found at Pompeii.

Calchas presides at the sacrifice of Iphigeneia in a peristyle fresco from Pompeii.

* Roman frescos found at Pompeii and Ercolano show Hermaphroditus in various styles, alone and interacting with satyrs, Pan and Silenus.

Hundreds of lararia, or family shrines, have been discovered at Pompeii, typically off the atrium, kitchen or garden, where the smoke of burnt offerings could vent through the opening in the roof.