Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.09 x h:
0.133 x d:
0.009-0.014).
Text: Letters painted on both sides.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 16 May (context, internal, date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-61)
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
17 days before the Kalends of June (=May 16). Unit of 59 men: among which 1 clerk; 1 second-in-command; 21 soldiers on exercise; 3 on guard duty; 5 assigned to the baths; 1 assigned to the rods; 1 assigned to Boinag; 7 sick; 19 available for redeployment: [the baths received ---]
(Verso) Sick: Aurelius Carinas, Julius [---]
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 2, whence HGV 73152, DDbDP o.bu.njem.2.