Pompeian Graffiti

Various (residents and visitors of Pompeii) · c. AD 50-79 (preserved by the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius) · Pompeii (Italy) · other

Thousands of scratched inscriptions on Pompeii's walls, from election endorsements to love notes to gladiator scorecards and casual insults, preserve the unfiltered voices of a Roman town's ordinary population in a way no literary text attempts.