I found this on my RL Facebook feed and almost died laughing…
This papyrus fragment records the remains of a letter sent from in the first century AD from one Hikane o her son Isidoros and it goes a little something like this:
The parentheses represent insertions of standard bits of text that are not actually present on the papyus, but can be easily inferred.
Ahhh, a mother’s capacity for laying guilt LOVE is timeless!
(sounds like something I said yesterday after Mini Me woke me up from my Mother’s Day siesta for the third time in 45 minutes.)
Ancient Armitage 