Overview

• More than 2,000 plaster fragments excavated in 2021 have been fully reassembled by Museum of London Archaeology, with findings published on June 19, 2025.
• The frescoes reveal rare yellow panel designs with black intervals featuring birds, fruit, flowers and lyres that reflect elite Roman tastes.
• A fragment inscribed with the Latin word 'FECIT' provides the earliest known painter’s signature in Britain despite the artist’s name being lost.
• Reconstructed graffiti includes a near-complete ancient Greek alphabet and a crying female face, marking unique inscriptions in Roman Britain.
• Evidence indicates the paintings once adorned at least 20 interior walls of a high-status Southwark building that was demolished before AD 200.