Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.11 x h:
0.06 x d:
0.014).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 26 July (context, internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-111)
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
7th day before the Kalends of August (=July 26). Unit of 42 men, of which: 1 clerk; 1 second-in-command; 1 scout; 6 assigned to the water supply for the baths; 12 soldiers on exercise; 5 on guard post; 2 assigned to the camels; [---] assigned to flogging; [---] sick [---]
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 9, whence HGV 73159, DDbDP o.bu.njem.9.