Caryatid Study archival art print

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.


*The prints and frames follow standard A-series sizes (A1, A2, A3).

*The prints and frames follow standard A-series sizes (A1, A2, A3).


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.

23.4 × 33.1Inches

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100% Cotton Rag · 300 gsm

Cold press print · Archival ink

Designed in Scandinavia, produced in the United States

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Made in Mount Sterling, Kentucky

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