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A tablet bearing a birthday party invite includes the earliest Latin script penned by a woman

1 posted on 09/10/2013 5:34:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Yea, well duh. It’s always the woman who does the invites.


2 posted on 09/10/2013 5:36:29 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: SunkenCiv

*** tablets covered with Roman cursive writing.***

Ah cant’s read it cause its in cursive.


4 posted on 09/10/2013 5:39:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: SunkenCiv

:) History has come full circle. From tablet to Tablet. Interesting article. Thanks.


5 posted on 09/10/2013 5:41:48 PM PDT by madison10
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To: SunkenCiv

Fascinating.

I can make it at IV o’clock. ;)


6 posted on 09/10/2013 5:41:58 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: SunkenCiv

Did Severa also invite Biggus Dickus and his wife, Incontinentia Buttocks?

< /Monty Python>


9 posted on 09/10/2013 6:10:58 PM PDT by twister881
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To: SunkenCiv

September 11??

Seriously, that date is always popping up


14 posted on 09/10/2013 6:41:40 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: SunkenCiv

Quid capillum tuum ut faceres tibi


15 posted on 09/10/2013 6:50:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Below is the actual translation that had eluded researchers before now:

Claudia Severa to her BFF Lepidina


16 posted on 09/10/2013 6:56:05 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Soldiers in the field getting clean socks and underwear from home. My, how things haven’t changed. That could have been me, from time to time.


19 posted on 09/10/2013 7:50:57 PM PDT by jstaff
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To: SunkenCiv

Very interesting. Not the usual Latin script. I can make out “Ad Nos” and that is about it (If I have made out even that!) Looks like Tolkein’s elvish...


20 posted on 09/10/2013 7:54:43 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: SunkenCiv

I love this story, and I sent it to my grandson who is a Latin student. I wonder if the sister RSVPed?


22 posted on 09/11/2013 2:59:38 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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