07-11-2010, 06:51 PM
Quote:What gets me is that there's no mention of Vindolanda or its writing tablets at all. 100 fragments of tablet is by far -not- the largest collection found in one place. And even when the Netherlands tablets were found in 1978 there was already a body of material describing Vindolanda's collection and their attempts to conserve it. For a find like this to live in a little bubble for 30-some years with no cross-checking, no cooperation to try to conserve it properly... it's just mind-boggling.Harry,
a) Vindolanda was mentioned in the article.
b) It's not a 100 fragments:
Quote:Nineteen fragments, four small fragments; the rest is just crumbles. No hundred fragments therefore .
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
