Most people travel to
Pompeii to see the ancient murals hidden among the ruins. However,
there are surprises for anybody interested in calligraphy. There are
places where ancient Roman grafitti have been preserved. They seem to
be either in ancient rustics script or in something in between
rustics and capitalis elegans. This certainly is not quadrata, as the
letters are very narrow but they have serifs similar to capitalis
elegans rather than to rustica proper. Anyway the rustica we know
from manuscripts might have crystallised later.
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