Most of the chambers on the left were probably occupied by the guards of the gateway, and the graffiti they contain are of a character which confirms this supposition.
A list of names with numbers attached to them, which seem to be those of combatants in the stadium, was found among the graffiti here.
The graffitito be seen here are chiefly the scribblings of soldiers' names, rude sketches of ships and animals, and combats of gladiators.
In rare cases during the Middle Kingdom (inscriptions in the tomb of Ameni at Beni Hasan, graffiti in the quarries of Hanub) documents were dated in the years of reign of these feudatory nobles.
Such a verse as the following is more clever than most raffiti, but like ordinary graffiti it remains essentially “unpoetic”: Lord Byron / Once succumbed to a Siren.
Recent studies of graffiti have often focused on particular modern conflicts between races or nations, on drug problems, and on specific political commentary.
Graffiti is an irreverent form, with strong popular and anti-establishment elements.
Indeed, one of the more interesting aspects of graffiti is that in an impermanent form it testifies to the continuance over the centuries of certain human concerns.
Inside it was like a corridor and in this mire spray painted in Spanish graffiti he ascended and descended on pavement wreaking of the effluvium of evaporating urine.
A further development can be traced in the graffiti wirh which pilgrims adorned the rocks of Mount Sinai down to the 2nd or 3rd century A.
It can be traced in thegraffiti of the mercenaries of Psammetichus at Abu Simbel in Upper Egyrt, where Greeks, Carians and Phoenicians all cut their names upon the legs of the colossal statues.
These graffiti are of the highest value for the early history of the alphabet, and as proving the presence of Greek mercenaries in the Egyptian armies of the period.
Taken as a whole, the graffiti are less fertile for our knowledge of Pompeian life than might have been expected.
A few graffiti have reference to events, as the siege of Sulla, in 89 B.
The most prominent theme of the graffitiis love, which is constantly reappearing, in prose scribblings and in snatches of verse.
Graffiti relating to the conflict in the Amphitheatre [p.
Graffiti are sometimes useful for the identification of buildings; so in the case of the Basilica and of several inns.
Athletes in all ages have won the admiration of the gentler sex; and it would be surprising if among so many gladiatorial graffiti there were not some containing references to female admirers.
Other gladiators, no doubt, shared the dwelling with him; and the amatory graffiti may have been written by one and another miles gloriosus, referring to conquests outside the arena, or by companions in bitter scorn.
A number of graffiti scratched on walls in various parts of the city mention an Actius Anicetus, whose name is given in full in an inscription found at Puteoli, C.
Their date is again uncertain, since graffiti of this kind give very few facts from which dates can be deduced.
They are found together with the earlier Greek and Latin graffiti of Roman soldiers and with later Moslem remarks in Kufic.
Roberts first insists that the graffiti in his collection are notable examples of wit.
During the twenty-five years that followed the publication of the Merry-Thought series, a few additional pieces of graffiti were published in England and America.
Footnote 12: Roberts was almost certainly the collector of the graffiti printed in The Merry-Thought as well as the author of the dedication, but the dedication was itself signed with the name "Hurlo Thrumbo.
Glass being fragile and diamonds being relatively rare, it is not surprising that few examples of graffiti produced by the method employed by Moll and her lover are known to us today.
Blackden-Frazer in A Collection of Hieratic Graffiti from the Alabaster Quarry of Rat-nub, pl.
The inscriptions which were read upon the pyramids were the graffiti of visitors, some of them carefully executed.
Indeed, writing is deconstructed and becomes graffiti notation, shorthand statements freed of language, and defying literacy.
What we probably refused to see is how deep the literacy of graffiti goes, where its roots are, how wide the extensions, and how much aphasia in its writing and reading.
No Rembrandt or Cézanne, not even the illiterate graffiti artists in the New York subway system could experience such things.
Much of the public hated graffiti because it obliterated legitimate communication and a sense of neatness and order that literacy continuously reinforced.
It is, for example, very difficult to say whether the artists of the graffiti movement were writers, using an alphabet reminiscent of Egyptian hieroglyphs, or painters with words, or both.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "graffiti" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
