Dr. Aaron Judkins Substack · Apr 7, 2026

The Alexamenos Graffito

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In the Palatine Museum, there is a collection of ancient graffiti etched into marble and limestone, marks once scratched across the walls of imperial buildings throughout Rome.

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In the Palatine Museum, there is a collection of ancient graffiti etched into marble and limestone, marks once scratched across the walls of imperial buildings throughout Rome. Among them is one of the most provocative images from antiquity: what historians now call the Alexamenos Graffito.

The image is a ridicule of a crude figure hanging on a cross, an…

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