
Fragment of painted wall plaster from the praetorium headquarters in the Roman fort of Dura Europos, in Syria, with partially preserved large letters of the famous abbreviation SPQR – ‘Senatus Populusque Romanus’ or ‘The Senate and People of Rome.’ Early 3rd century CE [1174×1432]
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A secondary inscription inside the letter Q wishes good fortune to the administrative officer Julius Domninus and his four assistants, all soldiers of Legio IIII Scythica based at the fortress.
Now housed at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Would they have used stensils to paint those letters?