ABSTRACT
In relation to the study of ancient graffiti, graffiti can be described and evaluated as both textual and figurative remainders and cultural artefacts. When studying antiquity, the usefulness of graffiti as part of the urban fabric or the inhabited countryside of the ancient world cannot be undervalued. To situate the phenomenon of graffiti in antiquity and its relationship to the expression in the ancient world of information, ideas and feelings, it is important to consider briefly the history of pre-modern communication. Discovered in caves and rock shelters and covering thirty millennia, the content of this parietal art in the main represents a congeries of animals plant forms are rare and human figures are relatively few. The pigments in cave paintings were made from dirt or charcoal mixed with animal fat. The first and foremost requirement for writing text as graffiti was to be functionally literate, or to be able to copy from a script written by someone who was functionally.
