Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.102 x h:
0.15 x d:
0.01).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 31 August (context, internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-41)
Interpretive
Pr(idie) Kạl(endas) Septem[b](res) n(umerus) XL[VII]
ex is librarius [I]
[procu]l[ca]tor I[---]
optio I[---]
5cum ca[mellis?] VI
ṃissi ad Ẹṣubạ VII
ad aqua<m> [balnei?] IIII
stationaṛ[ius] c. 6 I
ministeṛc. 5Lc. 5 I
10mol[endari]us I
lạniạ[rius] I
foṛ[narius] I
[reliqui repungent] X̣ṾỊỊỊỊ
[egr?]i [III]
15[A]ụṛẹḷius Siluanus
[A]ụrel[ius] Felix
Iul(ius) Optatus
balneus accipit XỊỊ[II]
furnus V
Diplomatic
PRK.LSEPTEM[.]NXL[...]
EXISLIBRARIUS[.]
[.....]L[..]TORI[---]
OPTIOI[---]
5CUMCA[......]VI
.ISSIAD..UB.VII
ADAQUA[......]IIII
STATIONA.[...]······I
MINISTE.·····L·····I
10MOL[......]USI
L.NI.[....]I
FO.[......]I
[................]......
[...]I[...]
15[.]....IUSSILUANUS
[.].REL[...]FELIX
IULOPTATUS
BALNEUSACCIPITX..[..]
FURNUSV
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
The day before the Kalends of September (=August 31). Unit of 67 men, of which: [1] clerk; 1 [scout]; 1 second-in-command;
6 with the camels; 7 sent to Esuba; 4 assigned to the water supply for the baths; [---] on guard post; [---] servants; 1 mill-worker; 1 wool-worker; 1 kitchen worker; 19 available for redeployment; [3 sick(?)]; Aurelius Silvanus;
Aurelius Felix; Iulius Optatus; 14 received by the baths; 5 on kitchen duty.
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 10, whence HGV 73160, DDbDP o.bu.njem.10.
