An ancient Roman fresco and graffiti section from the Caupona (tavern) of Tertius in Pompeii.
“This fresco was found in a corridor leading to a toilet. It is packed with symbols intended to protect the viewer from harm when they are at their most vulnerable.
The goddess Isis Fortuna, holding a horn of plenty (cornucopia) and the rudder of a ship, watches over a squatting, defecating, n*ked man, while protective serpent demons (agathodaemones) guard him. Someone has painted a message onto the plaster which says, ‘Crapper, beware of evil!’” Per the description in a special exhibition in Oxford, England where I took this picture although the artwork is normally in the archaeological museum in Naples, Italy.
by DecimusClaudius