GRAFFITIS IN AN OBSCURE FORM OF OLD ARABIC. WHO WROTE THEM? The inscriptions were found scratched onto the walls of Pompeii’s theater tunnel. "I argue that Pompeii's Safaitic graffiti were inscribed by nomads from the Ḥarrah who had been incorporated into the Roman army, and who marched into Italy with Legio III Gallica during its campaign to install Vespasian as emperor." One of Pompeii’s Greatest Mysteries May Have Been Solved | The Daily Beast
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