Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) on Nostr: This iron stylus (a type of pen for writing on wax or clay tablets) in scribed with ...
This iron stylus (a type of pen for writing on wax or clay tablets) in scribed with the lines: "I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty."
Or to put is simply, "My friend went to Rome and all I got was this lousy pen.
Dated to about AD 70. Found in London during excavations by MOLA.
#History #Rome #writing #puns
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