Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.11 x h:
0.105 x d:
0.01).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 21 July (context, )
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
12 days before the Kalends of August (=July 21). Unit of 44 men, among which: 1 clerk; 1 second-in-command; 1 scout; 7 assigned to the water supply for the baths; 5 on guard post; 1 mill-worker; 1 assigned to the jail; 1 sick: Paccius Maximus; 3 with the camels; 22 available for redeployment; 16 received by the baths; and a camel-driver; 5 received by the kitchens.
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 8, whence HGV 73158, DDbDP o.bu.njem.8.