Fried Chicken and the Blasphemous Graffito
David F. Watson In the late-second century, someone got the smart idea to make fun of a Christian named Alexamenos. He or she scribbled a cartoon onto the plaster wall of a building on Rome’s Palatine Hill. The cartoon depicted Alexamenos worshiping a crucified man with the head of an ass. Its inscription read, “Alexamenos […]
In the late-second century, someone got the smart idea to make fun of a Christian named Alexamenos. He or she scribbled a cartoon onto the plaster wall of a building on Rome’s Palatine Hill. The cartoon depicted Alexamenos worshiping a crucified man with the head of an ass. Its inscription read, “Alexamenos worships his god.” This cartoon is known today as the Palatine Graffito. It is also called the Alexamenos Graffito and the Blasphemous Graffito. Continue Reading……