Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
a Roman birthday party invitation from 100 AD
Thin wooden tablets found in a waterlogged rubbish dump near Hadrian's Wall. Claudia Severa invites her friend Sulpicia Lepidina to her birthday. One of the earliest known examples of a woman's handwriting in Latin.
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- Vindolanda (en.wikipedia.org)
- Hadrian's Wall (en.wikipedia.org)
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