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Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) @golgaloth@writing.exchange
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 it 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.
@golgaloth This is so funny I had to <internetsearchengine> it, to be sure its true. #Thomas
PS: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/28/uk/roman-stylus-london-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
CNN · Ancient Roman pen with an inscribed joke found under streets of London
