Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.10 x h:
0.08 x d:
0.012).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259 (context)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-50)
Interpretive
[c. 7 a]d transituṃ [c. 15]
[c. 8] et exiuimus +[c. 15]
[c. 9 M]ạlchus et Iul(ius) Felix [c. 15]
desẹṛuerunt depost fascina[sc. 14]
5C<a>elius Fortunatus Iul(ius) Donạ[tusc. 12]-
-anus Sulpicius Donatus M[c. 15]
Pompeus Datius et reuẹṇ[erunt c. 10]
hora noctis V Sulpicius Do[natus c. 7 die?]
s(upra) s(cript)- missus est cumm litteras [c. 15]
10Iul(ius) Rufinus (equites) [---]
c. 11[---]
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Diplomatic
[·······.]DTRANSITU.[···············]
[········]ETEXIUIMUS·[···············]
[·········.].LCHUSETIULFELIX[···············]
DES..UERUNTDEPOSTFASCINA[.··············]
5CELIUSFORTUNATUSIULDON.[...············]
ANUSSULPICIUSDONATUSM[···············]
POMPEUSDATIUSETREU..[.....··········]
HORANOCTISVSULPICIUSDO[.....·······...]
SSMISSUSESTCUMMLITTERAS[···············]
10IULRUFINUS[---]
···········[---]
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English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
. . . ] to the passage [ . . . . . . ] and we exited [ . . . ca. 9 ] Malchus and Iulius Felix [ . . . ] They departed
having deposited their fasces [ . . . ] Caelius Fortunatus, Iulius Donatus, [ . . . -]anus, Sulpicius Donatus, M[- . . . ]
Pompeius Datius, and they returned [ . . . ] At the fifth hour of the night Sulpicius Do[natus . . . . .?on the day] written
above was sent with letters [ . . . ] Iulius Rufunus, equestrian [ . . .
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 67, whence HGV 73217, DDbDP o.bu.njem.67.
