Alexamenos graffito

A famous example of this is the Alexamenos graffito.

Some scholars interpret the Alexamenos graffito, the earliest surviving depiction of the Crucifixion, as including such a foot-rest.

In the first three centuries of Early Christian art, the crucifixion was rarely depicted, although the Alexamenos graffito would have little point if this was never the case.

A very early image generally thought to be a representation of Jesus is the Alexamenos graffito, a unique piece of wall graffiti near the Palatine hill in Rome.

The Alexamenos graffito, which is the earliest surviving pictorial representation of a crucifixion and has been interpreted as mockery of a Christian, shows a cross as an instrument of execution.

The Alexamenos graffito, currently in the museum in the Palatine Hill, Rome, is a Roman graffito from the 2nd century CE which depicts a man worshiping a crucified donkey.