A STRONG WOMAN FROM 1840 years ago - HER OWN WORDS:
"women who attained maturity are mistresses of their own persons and can remain with their husbands or not as they chose and not as their father commands!"
Petition of Dionysia to the prefect against her father @bodleianlibs
Partytime in Egypt 2270 years ago:
"at the last party, someone took off all my clothes and stole them, please, Pharaoh, help me investigate their whereabouts to get them back or recieve compensation"
Petition to Ptolemy II
@BLMedieval
Papyrus 2974
Letter to boss about 1500 years ago @bodleianlibs
"I have written many times about this issue to your honour and still haven't achieved anything...."
Sounds familiar?
#tuesdayvibe#tuesdaymotivations#boss
A strong book curse from ca. 600 years ago in a Greek manuscript @bodleianlibs
"...if anyone dares to steal this book... let him have the curse of all 7 ecumenical councils and of myself the sinful monk Gerasimos of Cyprus"
#TuesdayFeeling#tuesdayvibe
#OTD 1815 years ago - Congestion charge paid for a
"black female camel having a Y on its right shoulder and another Y on the right side of its jaw"
Even the seal survives @bodleianlibs#thursdayvibes#thursdaymood
"If Christodora dares to do any detriment to my possessions, SHE RECEIVES NOTHING and will be deprived of all the dispositions I made in this will"
A strict father bequeathing his htings to his daughter 1490 years ago in his will @bodleianlibs#FridayHeadlines#fatherhood
"Isodoros to Hermolaos - I am sending you 60 walnuts, 5 baskets of figs, 20 pomegranates -
AND A PARTRIDGE [in a peartree]"
2270-year-old letter @bodleianlibs with some familar reference (OK almost...)
HOLIDAY 1778 years ago - visa issued for Aurelia Maeciana by the prefect @bodleianlibs
"Your honor, I would like to sail out of Egypt this month."
At the end prefect says OK in Latin ("dimittimus") - enjoy your summers 😎