So it’s “being skilled with letters” > not able to read and write > being illiterate.
These non-literary Papyri are very interesting texts, one can see, that the world in manny aspects hasn’t changed that much: People had the same things on their minds : renting, buying, trading, marriages, divorces, adoptions, taxes, births, funerals.
And since they are mostly not very long, it’s not a giant’s job to tranbslate them. Unless of course, one looks up the wrong verb!
Statistics: Posted by Jean Putmans — Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:28 pm