re: #302 Belafon

Interesting. I’m curious about the date: Jan. 8, A.D. 57. We’re westerners using AD by then?

No. That wooden note was dated ( AFA the BBC said) by the Roman dating system: “six days from the Ides Of January, in the consulatships of Wossname and So-and-So”. The AD dating didn’t come into use until the early Sixth Century (AD or CE)