Graffiti from Pompeii in 79 AD

        

From Herculaneum (a bar/inn joined to the maritime baths):

 "Two friends were here. While they were, they had bad service in every way from a guy named Epaphroditus. They threw him out and spent 105 and half sestertii most agreeably on whores."

        

From just outside the Vesuvius gate:

"Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place."

        

From the peristyle of the Tavern of Verecundus:

"Restitutus says: 'Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates.'"

        

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

                 

From the basilica:

 "O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin."