Pompeii Graffit

Pretty amazing.

Pompeii Graffiti

"II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792: On April 19th, I made bread"

Is this a euphemism for pinching a loaf?

Haha. Wow. In it's own way, this stuff is more fun than graffiti I see around the city everyday. Unless these are the equivalent of scrawls in a bathroom stall, which they may well be.

I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

come on

first thing.

Herculaneum (bar/inn joined to the maritime baths); 10677: Apelles the chamberlain with Dexter, a slave of Caesar, ate here most agreeably and had a screw at the same time.

this one is particularly apt:

IX.8.3 (House of the Centenary; interior of the house); 5279: Once you are dead, you are nothing

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1811: A small problem gets larger if you ignore it.

My dad went to Pompeii last summer and told me of drawings of penises on the walls pointing towards the bordellos.

Ingenious.

I went there as a kid with my dad and I remember there being all sorts of sexual imagery...my favorite was a statue of a guy weighing his enormous cock on a set of scales...

  lumpenprol said:

I went there as a kid with my dad and I remember there being all sorts of sexual imagery...my favorite was a statue of a guy weighing his enormous cock on a set of scales...

aaah, good old Priapus

priapus is the god of cocks

and should became the mascot of watmm

I wonder if other cities in Italy had this graffiti. If not, is it because pompeii was frozen in time? It must have been a trend all over the empire. Its hard to believe this was a 1000 years before the middle ages.

  marf said:

Its hard to believe this was a 1000 years before the middle ages.

Because it wasn't, Vesuvius blew only a few hundred years before the start of the Middle Ages.

Pompeii was destroyed in AD 79

Middle Ages start at the fall of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD.

pwn.

Well ok, but I don't think of the middle ages as that time, but I guess you are technically right. I think of that time, the fall of rome and the middle ages as the "Dark ages", but what I meant is there is such a stark contrast between the Roman culture, which seems more in tune with our own, than the cruel, backward and monastic way of thinking prevalent in the writings and practices documented in the time of the middle ages. I can't find much in the way of paintings and writings before the year 1000. Id love to be pointed to some if you know of any.

Well Constantine fucked it up for everyone. Pre-1000 AD in general or pre-1000 AD post-400 AD?

Apparently defecation and incontinence were common woes?

  triachus said:

  lumpenprol said:

I went there as a kid with my dad and I remember there being all sorts of sexual imagery...my favorite was a statue of a guy weighing his enormous cock on a set of scales...

 

 

aaah, good old Priapus

 

 

priapus is the god of cocks

 

and should became the mascot of watmm

Priapus joined Pan and the satyrs as a spirit of fertility and growth, though he was perennially frustrated by his impotence. He attempted to rape the nymph Lotis but was thwarted by an ass, whose braying caused him to lose his erection at the critical moment and woke Lotis. He pursued the nymph until the gods took pity on her and turned her into a lotus plant. The episode gave him a lasting hatred of asses and a willingness to see them killed in his honour. In the end, his lust gave him a permanent erection and his penis grew so large that he was unable to move.

  Yegg said:

Middle Ages start at the fall of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD.

 

pwn.

i've been, pompeii is lush... amazing stuff.

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VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1820: Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!