Santa Croce in Rome has a piece of the Titulus or INRI that was nailed above the Cross. You can see the writing in three languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Notice how the Latin is written in reverse script, or “as the ox ploughs,” a common way of writing back then.⁣

The first line is Hebrew, written right to left, when the writer got to the end, rather than pick up the chisel and go back to the right, he would drop to the next line and write left to right, when he got to Latin, he write right to left.⁣

In the Latin you’ll see, in reverse, I (Jesus) Nazarenus (the Nazarene) the rest of the Titulus is not here.⁣

This church also has one of the nails used in the Crucifixion. Notice how big, more like a spike. It had to go through the hands or feet and into the wood and be able to support the weight.