Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.082 x h:
0.09 x d:
0.01).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 29 September (context, internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-110)
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
3 days before the Kalends of October (=September 29). Unit of 59 men, of which: 9 cavalrymen; 1 second-in-command; 15 soldiers on exercise; 6 assigned to the water supply for the baths; 1 assigned to the standards; 1 assigned to the gate; 1 on look-out; 1 assigned to the commander’s office; 7 sick; [17 available for redeployment]; 9 received by the baths; 8 assigned to the baths [---]
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 13, whence HGV 73163, DDbDP o.bu.njem.13.