(March 1, 2013 at 3:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Tablets Another fine example of the chance nature of what archaeology turns up. The survival of those tablets is attributed to the anaeobic conditions in the ground. People also wrote on broken pottery shards and there the shard itself does not biodegrade but the writing on them assuredly does.
Here's another writing tablet which survived.
Oldest writing found in the Netherlands
Quote:Leyden papyrologist Klaas Worp, who compared the inscription with other Roman era documents, discovered that the Roman text dated from February 23, 29 AD, and that it actually acknowledges a debt payable to the slave Carus or his heir.
It's just annoying that the stuff which has survived has nothing to do with criminals executed in arenas. It was a popular form of entertainment all over the empire so there would have been thousands of lists if they'd kept such records.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?
