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Graffiti?

a Scratch...


...from BCE to TAKI 183 in the 1960's:

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/17/the-history-of-graffiti-from-ancient-times-to-modern-days/

Is it art?  A brief overview:

https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-old-is-graffiti/

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n.pl   '1851, ancient drawings or writings scratched on walls, as those of Pompeii and Rome; borrowing of Italian graffiti, plural of graffito- a scribbling, ultimately from Greek graphein- draw, write.  The transferred meaning, applied to recently made crude drawings or scribblings, is first recorded in English in 1877.'
           -Barnhart, Robert K.  The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology:  The origins of American English Words.  H. W. Wilson Company, 1995.
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