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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
This wooden tablet is the earliest known example of Latin writing by a woman, Claudia Severa, who invited her good friend Sulpicia Lepidina to her birthday party. The invitation was found at the ...
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2,000-Year-Old Wafer-Thin Wooden Tablet With Heartfelt Birthday Party Invitation Discovered, Earliest RSVP Evidence
In the invitation, Severa was asking Lepidina to visit her on her birthday, according to Live ... No other writing sample before the particular period of 97-105 A.D. has been attributed to a ...