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Sat 10 Jun, 2017 09:44 am
MORTVVS SVM
= I am dead?? ("I" is a masculine person)
Yes. Written mortuus sum in modern style.
@George,
I think it's a case of those Roman stonecutters having trouble with the curves in the letter U, so they just went with the more angular V. Easy with a pen; not so easy with a chisel.
@roger,
roger wrote:Roman stonecutters having trouble with the curves in the letter U
There wasn't a "letter U"... Oh. Right.
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