Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.11 x h:
0.095 x d:
0.008).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 24 December (context, internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 68-106)
Interpretive
VIIII Ka(lenda)s Ian(uarias) n(umerus) LVII
in his librarius I
optio I
⟦proculcator I⟧
5(equites) VIII
quintanari XXII
de speclis I
ad porta<m> I
ad p(rae)p(ositum) I
10structor I
egri III
Sulpicius Donatus
Titus Buzuris
Aụreḷius Rufus
15 ad uirg̣as I
reliqui repungent XVII
fur[n]us XV
[balneus] II
Diplomatic
VIIIIKASIANNLVII
INHISLIBRARIUSI
OPTIOI
⟦PROCULCATORI⟧
5VIII
QUINTANARIXXII
DESPECLISI
ADPORTAI
ADPPI
10STRUCTORI
EGRIIII
SULPICIUSDONATUS
TITUSBUZURIS
A.RE.IUSRUFUS
15ADUIR.ASI
RELIQUIREPUNGENTXVII
FUR[.]USXV
[.......]II
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
9 days before the Kalends of January (=December 24). Unit of 57 men, among which: 1 clerk; 1 second-in-command; 1 scout; 5
cavalrymen; 22 soldiers on exercise; 1 on look-out; 1 assigned to the gates; 1 assigned to the commander's office; 1 builder;
3 sick: Sulpicius Donatus, Titus Buzuris, Aurelius Rufus;
(perpendicular) 1 assigned to flogging; 17 available for redeployment; 15 on kitchen duty 15; 2 [assigned to the baths]
Bibliography: Marichal, 1979 439, whence AE 1979.643, EDH 008530; O. Bu Njem 22, whence HGV 73172, DDbDP o.bu.njem.22.
Images
Fig. 1. From Marichal 1979
