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But the absence of the disputed objects from other sites of the same period remains as great a difficulty as ever. Early "wags" may have made them but why are they only known in the three Clyde sites? Also, why are the painted pebbles only known in a few brochs of Caithness? Have the graffiti on slate at St. Blane's, in Bute, been found I mean have graffiti on slate like those of St.
A wide doorway leads to the open court built on the side of the pyramid. In the centre of the court stands the altar of offerings, where there is also an inscribed obelisk thirteen feet high. The walls of the temple are all marked with graffiti of visitors who belonged to the twelfth and eighteenth dynasties. A statuette was found dedicated to the gods of the town by a woman.
Amidst all the imposing recollections of the ancient edifice, one impressed me in the inverse ratio of its importance. The Archdeacon pointed out the little holes in the stones, in one place, where the boys of the choir used to play marbles, before America was discovered, probably, centuries before, it may be. It is a strangely impressive glimpse of a living past, like the graffiti of Pompeii.
These little oratories are often found near fountains, streams or tree-clumps where travellers would be likely to alight. Even the paws of the Sphinx are covered with such graffiti; and those of Ipsambul or Abu Simbal have proved treasures to epigraphists.
There was some activity in Germany, for a time, the versatile Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim adding this craft to his numerous accomplishments, although it is probable that his works resembled the graffiti and inlaid work rather than the mosaics composed of cubes of smalt. At the Monastery of Monte Cassino in the eleventh century was an interesting personality, the Abbé Didier, its Superior.
Here they spent a "silly fortnight, searching for gold," which refused to answer even to the diving rod. They saw catacombs the Tombs of the Kings some of which were scrawled with graffiti, laboured perhaps by some idle Nabathaean boy in the time of Christ. They found remains of furnaces, picked up some coins, and saw undoubted evidences of ancient opulence. That was all.
He has given the public two law-books, commonly attributed to his eminent father; the delightful Roba di Roma, which embodies the actual animate beauty and interest of Roman life; a volume of poems, Graffiti d'Italia, full of fine dramatic fragments and studies of character in the manner of Browning, descriptions which are pictures, and sweet verses which live in the heart; and a number of essays in the pleasantest style of table-talk.
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