. The literary digest. in any otherway. A distinguished archeologist. Prof. Orazio Marucchi, thedirector of the Egyptian Museum, of the Vatican, has devotedhimself for many years to the study of epigraphy, and now hehas brought himself into great prominence owing to his discov-ery of the graffito referred to. The picture is scratched on thelevel of the ground close by the angle of one of the passageswhich lie under the structures adjoining the Bridge of Caligula,in the immediate neighborhood of the Clivus Victorias. Thebuilding is really a gallery made by Caligula to connect thePalace with the
. The literary digest. in any otherway. A distinguished archeologist. Prof. Orazio Marucchi, thedirector of the Egyptian Museum, of the Vatican, has devotedhimself for many years to the study of epigraphy, and now hehas brought himself into great prominence owing to his discov-ery of the graffito referred to. The picture is scratched on thelevel of the ground close by the angle of one of the passageswhich lie under the structures adjoining the Bridge of Caligula,in the immediate neighborhood of the Clivus Victorias. Thebuilding is really a gallery made by Caligula to connect thePalace with the Forum. One reason that even the archeologisthas great difficulty in making out the topography of the Palatineis that it is covered with a vast series of substructures which sup-ported the palaces and which afforded rooms and passagewaysfor the servants and especially the soldiers. At any moment aforce of soldiers could be concentrated at any point of danger. It is not surprising that the soldiers for diversion used to. A GRAFFITO OF THE CRUCIFIXION, IN THE PALACE OF TIBERIUS, PALATINE HILL, ROME. scratch lines and drawings on the rough plaster of the wall. Thegraffito of the Crucifixion is very crude, as is so often the case insketches of this kind. It is believed that the picture was drawnby a soldier who took a more or less active part in the Crucifixionon Mount Calvary. The figures are about fifteen centimeters [6 inches] high. At the right and left are crosses, and soldiersmount ladders placed against them. Each person in the greattragedy is duly inscribed with his name, and Piletus was un-doubtedly intended for Pontius Pilate. The inscription of twelveor fifteen lines begins with the wordCrestus, which is alreadyknown as a rough form of the name of Christ. There is consid-erable doubt as to the meaning of the rest of the inscription. deciphers part of it: Crestus, virgis ccesus decretusmori, super palum vivus fixus est, which is to say, Christ, fXavo |\/oriT/4/
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