07-10-2010, 06:59 PM
Quote:it seems that they are not the Vindolanda-style ink tablets at all. Pity.There is an interesting aspect to it. Why did they bring up the VIndolanda connection in the first place? The comparison is not illuminating - the writing tablets are of a different type. Their contents appear to be of a different type as well: not personal letters but official documents. The obvious parallel, in Holland, would be Tolsum: the same type of document, same type of tablet. Besides, "Tolsum", being a find from Holland that was written about much last year, is well-known to a Dutch audience.
The only explanation I can think of is that the archaeologists were in fact using the Dutch press to address their international colleagues. They are not interested in society and in the people who pay their research; they are only interested in other scholars.
