Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.102 x h:
0.065 x d:
0.009).
Text: Letters painted on one side; complete above and to the left.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259 (context)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the
Principia; found in 1971.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-135)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
To Iulius [ . . . ] my commander [ . . . -]pagus [ . . . ] I sent back [ . . . to Aur]elius [ . . . ] cavalryman with two letters Donat[ -. . . ? and] Iulius Maximus arrived, on the ninth (i.e. day before the) ides of Ma[- . . . ], first hour. [?May you be] well.
Commentary
7 Ma[rch or 7 Ma[y
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 103, whence HGV 73253, DDbDP o.bu.njem.103.