Claudia Severa

Claudia Severa (kelahiran 11 September pada abad pertama, kisaran 97-105)^[1] adalah wanita Romawi melek huruf, istri dari Aelius Brocchus, panglima sebuah benteng tak teridentifikasi di dekat benteng Vindolanda di utara Inggris.^[2] Ia dikenal karena mengirim undangan hari ulang tahun pada sekitar tahun 100 Masehi kepada Sulpicia Lepidina, istri dari Flavius Cerialis, panglima di Vindolanda. Ditulis memakai tinta di potongan kayu tipis, undangan tersebut ditemukan pada 1970an dan mungkin merupakan benda paling dikenal dari lauh Vindolanda.^[3]

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^ A. R. Birley, ‘Roman officers and their wives at Vindolanda (act. AD 97–105)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2008; online edn, May 2010 accessed 8 Aug 2017
^ Alan Bowman and David Thomas, Vindolanda: the Latin writing tablets, London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1983, pp. 256
^ Mount, Harry (21 July 2008). "Hadrian's soldiers writing home". The Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk). Diakses tanggal 23 February 2011. The real prize of the Vindolanda tablets, though, are the earliest surviving letters in a woman's hand written in this country. In one letter, Claudia Severa wrote to her sister, Sulpicia Lepidina, the wife of a Vindolanda bigwig - Flavius Cerialis, prefect of the Ninth Cohort of Batavians: 'Oh how much I want you at my birthday party. You'll make the day so much more fun. I do so hope you can make it. Goodbye, sister, my dearest soul.'

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Vindolanda Tablets Online: Correspondence of Lepidina: tablets 291-294

[1] A. R. Birley, ‘Roman officers and their wives at Vindolanda (act. AD 97–105)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2008; online edn, May 2010 accessed 8 Aug 2017

[2] Alan Bowman and David Thomas, Vindolanda: the Latin writing tablets, London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1983, pp. 256

[3] Mount, Harry (21 July 2008). "Hadrian's soldiers writing home". The Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk). Diakses tanggal 23 February 2011. The real prize of the Vindolanda tablets, though, are the earliest surviving letters in a woman's hand written in this country. In one letter, Claudia Severa wrote to her sister, Sulpicia Lepidina, the wife of a Vindolanda bigwig - Flavius Cerialis, prefect of the Ninth Cohort of Batavians: 'Oh how much I want you at my birthday party. You'll make the day so much more fun. I do so hope you can make it. Goodbye, sister, my dearest soul.'

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