Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.084 x h:
0.09 x d:
0.007).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 19 June (context, internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-92)
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
13 days before the Kalends of July (= June 19). Unit of 61 men, among which: 1 clerk; 1 second-in-command; 23 soldiers on exercise; 3 assigned to the water supply for the baths; 6 on guard post; [---]; [---] sick; [---] available for redeployment; [---]
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 6, whence HGV 73156, DDbDP o.bu.njem.6.