The Alexamenos Graffito

Around 200 AD, near Rome's Palatine Hill, someone scratched a crude drawing into a plaster wall: a donkey-headed figure on a cross, with a young man raising his hand beside it, captioned "Alexamenos worships his god." Widely believed to be an insult, mocking a Christian at a time when the faith was a misunderstood minority belief. A joke scratched into plaster two thousand years ago, now considered possibly the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus himself.

Size: 20 x 28 in (51 x 71cm)

Crafted to Last

Printed using museum-quality giclée printing on 300gsm Bright White Cold Press fine art paper, 18 mil thick, a heavyweight, textured, 100% cotton rag paper with a matte finish for rich, gallery-quality depth and lasting color. Acid- and lignin-free, and certified archival with a display rating of 100+ years.

If framed, your print is set in a black 0.71 x 1.02in (1.8 x 2.6cm) profile frame behind real glass, arriving ready to hang.