Claudia Severa
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Claudia Severa was the wife of Aelius Brocchus, commander of a fort (unknown) near the Roman fort of Vindolanda (Chesterholm) in northern England around 100AD.[1] She is best known for the birthday invitation she sent to Sulpicia Lepidina, wife of Flavius Cerialis, commander at Vindolanda, which was written in ink on a wooden tablet found during excavations at Vindolanda in the 1970s. The invitation is thought to be the oldest extant writing by a Roman woman found in Britain, or indeed anywhere.
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- ^ Alan Bowman and David Thomas, Vindolanda: the Latin writing tablets London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1983, pp. 256
