Comment by filleokus
5 years ago
These kind of things capture my mind so much. It's so easy imagining being that boy drawing something, compared to many other great-men historical artefacts.
A similar, but much more recent example, is the graffitiesque engraving by (the young) Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius in a stone pillar at the his local cathedral [0]/[1] in the end of the 1700's.
[0]: https://old.liu.se/berzelius?l=sv [1]: https://www.facebook.com/linkopingsdomkyrka/photos/a.4234860...
See also the Viking graffiti in Hagia Sophia (apparently, the Byzantine Emperors liked to keep an elite guard of Viking warriors, known today as the Varangian Guard):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
In the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there's great graffiti carved into the stone from British soldiers in Egypt to fight Napoleon.