Earliest Depiction of Crucifixion May Be Anti-Christian Graffiti

We are mocked in popular culture. We are attacked by the government. But this, as we know, is nothing new for Christians.

In fact, it’s rather fitting that the earliest surviving depiction of Christ crucified might just be anti-Christian graffiti. Discovered in 1857, carved into a wall near the Palatine Hill in Rome, the graffiti is believed to have been drawn around 200 AD.

The central figure of the drawing is a crucified figure with the body of a man and the head of a donkey or ass. To the left of the crucified figure is a man raising his hand in presumed worship. A mocking inscription accompanies the drawing which says “Alexamenos worshipping his God.”

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