Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.065 x h:
0.07 x d:
0.01).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 259: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-85)
English translation
Translation by: Caroline Barron
[ . . . ] To Octavius Festus [ . . . ] good health [ . . . ] soldier [ ] in the consulship of Aemilanus and Bassus.
Commentary
Aemilianus: PIR A 0316, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/942, consul 259
Pomponius Bassus: PIR P 0702, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/10796, consul 259
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 82, whence HGV 73232, DDbDP o.bu.njem.82.