Graffiti In Ancient Egypt

Graffiti is the act of drawing scribbled, scratched or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. Graffito (plural graffiti), in the archaeological context, is a deliberate mark made by scratching or engraving on a large surface such as a wall. The marks may form an image or writing. In archaeology, the term may or may not include the more common modern sense of an "unauthorised" addition to a building or monument. Sgraffito, a decorative technique of partially scratching off a top layer of plaster or some other material to reveal a differently coloured material beneath, is also sometimes known as "Graffito". The basic categories of graffiti in archaeology are written graffiti, or informal inscriptions, images in graffiti, and complex, merged, or multiple category graffiti. In Ancient Egypt hieroglyphs were used on doorjambs, hallways, entranceways, or the reverse side of objects to give insight to history, public record, random facts and other stories. Then this was later used in Demotic graffiti to scribe mummy caskets. The “Sator Square” is found in many sites of the Roman Empire. It has the phrase “Sator opera tenet; tenet opera sator”, which is roughly translated to “The Great Sower holds in his hands all works; all …show more content…
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