Alexamenos graffito
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The Alexamenos graffito (also known as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito)[1]:ā393ā is a piece of Roman graffito scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy, which has now been removed and is in the Palatine Museum.[2] It may be meant to depict Jesus; if so, it competes with an engraved gem held in the British Museum as the earliest known pictorial representation of the Crucifixion of Jesus.[3][4] It is hard to date, but has been estimated to have been made around the year 200 AD.[5] The image seems to show a young man worshipping a crucified, donkey-headed figure. The Greek inscription approximately translates to "Alexamenos worships [his] god,"[6] indicating that the graffito was apparently meant to mock a Christian named Alexamenos.[7]