English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age
English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age
Ivan Dimitrov, from Bristol, apologises to Rome mayor and says he was ‘embarrassed’ to learn of amphitheatre’s antiquity
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So he'd scratch his name on the glass of a bus stop, and that would be ok? How about carving his name in a tree?
No one give a f* about your mark.
At face value, you're right. His mark is pointless, and in the colosseum case, degrading even.
But a lot of ancient buildings are nowadays studied for the marks found on them. If you squint your mind's eye a bit, you can even imagine that some of the cave paintings that we nowadays admire are nothing but a testament to some dude's wish to leave their mark. No one cared until someone started to care.
Funny how relative all these things are, right?
This gives me so many mixed feelings. 🤭