• boboblaw [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    One graffito attests that visitors had to explore the dark tunnels and painted images by torchlight, making a pun on the visitor’s name, Dadouchios (Greek: Δᾳδούχιος) and the Greek: δᾳδοῦχος, translit. daidoukhos, lit. “torch”:

    Δᾳδούχιος σχολαστικὸς ἰατ(ρὸς) ἦλθον κ(αὶ) ἐθαύμασα καὶ ἄεπος ἦλθα δᾳδοῦχος

    I, Dadouchios, scholastikos (and) physician came and admired in silence bearing a torch

    Ancient shitposting on the tomb wall.