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    The Alexamenos graffito (known also as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito): 393  is a piece of Roman graffito scratched in plaster on the wall...
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  • Look up graffito in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Graffito is the singular form of the Italian graffiti, meaning "little scratch". Graffito may also...
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  • A graffito (plural "graffiti"), in an archaeological context, is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall. The...
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    The word Eternity was a graffito tag recorded over an approximate 35-year period from 1932 to 1967, written numerous times in chalk in the streets of Sydney...
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    51.5165306°N 0.0750389°W / 51.5165306; -0.0750389 The Goulston Street graffito was a sentence written on a wall beside a clue in the 1888 Whitechapel...
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    Kilroy was here is a meme that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive...
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    Graffiti (singular graffiti or graffito, the latter only used in graffiti archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without...
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    The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, also known by its designation Philae 436 or GPH 436, is the last known ancient Egyptian inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs...
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    domum" (English: Romans go home) is the corrected Latin phrase for the graffito "Romanes eunt domus" from a scene in the film Monty Python's Life of Brian...
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    Sgraffito (Italian: [zɡrafˈfiːto]; pl. sgraffiti) is an artistic or decorative technique of scratching through a coating on a hard surface to reveal parts...
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    abandoned in the 8th or 9th century CE.[citation needed] The Armenian Graffito from the Southern Church of Shivta is a significant archaeological find...
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    foreigners to it at intervals. A famous example of this is the Alexamenos graffito. The charge was likely first used against Jews in Egypt, where donkeys...
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    Stencil graffiti is a form of graffiti that makes use of stencils made out of paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily...
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  • during Naqada III. He was one of the first rulers of Ancient Egypt, and a graffito of him depicts a battle with an unidentified predynastic ruler. His tomb...
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    so the current alignment may not be as precise as the original one. A graffito inscribed in Greek on the left leg of the colossal seated statue of Ramesses...
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  • 356/7 CE Nabataean Aramaic Daniel Hegra Graffito 1st - 3rd c CE Nabataean Aramaic Abīyu son of Salmu al-Ula Graffito 1st - 3rd c CE Nabataean Aramaic May...
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    The Byblos Necropolis graffito is a Phoenician inscription situated in the Royal necropolis of Byblos. The graffito of Ahiram's tomb was found on the...
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    Graffito in Palma, Mallorca. "Eat the Guiri"...
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  • The graffito left upon one of the Chan family's two vehicles, likely as a subterfuge to deflect her abductor's true intentions for abducting Karmein...
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    men That Will not be Blamed for nothing." This graffito became known as the Goulston Street graffito. The message appeared to imply that a Jew or Jews...
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    Ramessesnakht. This was based on an incorrect reading of Theban graffito 1860a. This graffito was dated to an anonymous year 8 and seemed to mention, besides...
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    might cause riot was the sole reason why [the graffito] was rubbed out." Halse also testified the graffito—"written with white chalk on a black facia"—was...
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    a Roman crucifixion depicts an individual on a T-shaped cross. It is a graffito found in a taberna (hostel for wayfarers) in Puteoli, dating to the time...
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     36–38. ISBN 978-977-416-304-3. Van de Perre, Athena (2014). "The Year 16 graffito of Akhenaten in Dayr Abū Ḥinnis: A contribution to the study of the later...
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    stela set up by Seti, the Viceroy of Kush and at Gebel el-Silsila. A key graffito located at the entrance to the Speos of Horemheb at Gebel el-Silsila depicts...
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  • "FIGHT PATRIARCHY" – a graffito in Turin...
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    Cross graffito from Musawwarat es-Sufra...
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    complex wildstyle pieces. Arrows are used as a visual technique to make a graffito stand out or give it a sense of movement. The graffiti theoretician RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ...
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    drawn, making the henohenomoheji an ekaki uta (絵描き歌, drawing song). As a graffito On a teru teru bōzu On a scarecrow An early example as a detail on a netsuke...
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    WV22 (section Graffito)
    Eaton-Krauss attributes the graffito to the reign of Smenkhkare, while Marc Gabolde suggests it is contemporary with the graffito of Pawah, dating the reburial...
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