Description: Ceramic ostrakon (w:
0.06 x h:
0.064 x d:
0.015).
Text: Letters painted on one side.
Letters: No measurements
Date: 253 - 259; 8 October (context, internal date)
Findspot: Bu Njem: Fort, in the Principia.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Tripoli National Museum. (Inv. no. 71-70)
English translation
Translation by: Gabriel Bodard
8 days before the Ides of October (=October 8). Unit of 59 men, of which: 1 on one-and-a-half pay; [---] scout; [---] second-in-command; [---] assigned to the gate; [---] assigned to the standards; [---] assigned to the commander’s office; [---] on look-out; [---] assigned to the baths; [---] sent to [---]; [---] assigned to [---]; [--- sick(?) ---]
Bibliography: O. Bu Njem 15, whence HGV 73165, DDbDP o.bu.njem.15.