Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.12 x h:
0.062 x d:
0.01).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 22 October (context, internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-84)
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
11 days before the Kalends of November (= October 22). Unit of 45 men, of which: 1 on one-and-a-half pay, Aurelius Celestinus; [---] cavalrymen, Caecilius Rogatus; 1 second-in-command, Aurelius Quirinus; [---] soldiers on exercise; 2-4 assigned to the baths; [---] on look-out; [---] assigned to [---]
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 17, whence HGV 73167, DDbDP o.bu.njem.17.