How can this be the 11th page of a letter that started with “We have very little news to write”?pic.twitter.com/fVkQWomHuy
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Well, see, the nice thing about being an ancient historian is that when our subjects do this on papyrus, we have other specialists (hurray for papyrologists) who read and transcribe it.
Though, uh, in defense of our phony-baloney jobs, the end result of that transcription process looks like this:pic.twitter.com/GlfACQ5BAR
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(That's col i and ii of PGenLat 1, which is RMR 68, for the curious. It's a pay stub for a Roman soldier in Egypt, listing his pay in regular periods and deductions for standard expenses for 81 AD.)
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that’s a whole lot of underdotting
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