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2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman
One side of the letter names both the writer and the addressee and reads, "To Sulpicia Lepidina, wife of Cerialis, from [Claudia] Severa," according to the British Museum, where the object is housed.
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A 2,000-year-old wooden tablet reveals the oldest Latin text written by a woman
Dating back to between CE 97 and 103, it presents a text by Claudia Severa, who invited her friend, Sulpicia Lepidina, to her birthday celebration. The Vindolanda tablets, unearthed since 1973 at ...