It is believed that this is where Jesus and his disciples had the Last Supper shortly before his crucifixion. The Upper Room in Jerusalem has long been considered a sacred place for Christians, and some of them have left graffiti behind.
Shai Halevy/Israel Antiquities AuthorityA coat of arms bearing the inscription “Altbach,” believed to belong to a German pilgrim.
Researchers have found that the graffiti was left by many people of different nationalities in the Middle Ages.
Some inscriptions were anonymous, such as the Arabic inscription ending with the words “…ya al-Ḥalabīya”, which probably refers to the Syrian city of Aleppo, or the Armenian inscription “Christmas 1300”, which may be related to the famous military victory of the Armenian king Hethum II in 1299.
Other pilgrims, however, left their names. Johannes Poloner, a German pilgrim who visited Jerusalem in 1421–22 and wrote about his travels, recorded his name. So did the famous Swiss knight Adrian I von Bubenberg, the Venetian nobleman Giacomo Querini, and Count Lamprecht von Seckendorf from Franconia. Tristram von Teuffenbach, a Styrian nobleman who traveled to Jerusalem in 1436, even left a drawing of his coat of arms.
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