Tab.Vindol. 636. Correspondence of Priscinus

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Support

Type of object
Ink writing tablet
Material
Wood
Dimensions
W 77 mm × H 32 mm mm
Site
Vindolanda
Site period
3
Site context
SG/NE (intervallum road)
Find date
1993
Modern location
Now in the British Museum.
Institution/acc. #
British Museum: 1995,0701.71
Inv. no.
93.1279a

Text field

Style of lettering
(not specified)

Text

Origin of text
Vindolanda
Ancient site
Vindolanda
Text type
Private document
Tablet Category
Letters
Date
a.d. 97-105
Dating criteria
context, site period

Introduction

A fragment from the beginning of a letter to Priscinus. It is remarkable in that it has the address on the back of this half, which was presumably the left-hand column of the original letter (but cf. 343); this phenomenon also occurs in 319, 614A and perhaps elsewhere. Since there seems insufficient room for a gentilicium before Pr]ịscinọ in this half, the name may have run over the whole of the back of the tablet; but we can quote no parallel for this.

Edition

Front
] P̣rịscinọ suo
[sal]utem
.  .  .
Back
[Pr]ịscinọ praẹf̣(ecto)
.  .  .

Translation

No translation.

Commentary and notes

1.  The first letter could easily be read as c, suggesting Crispino; see Tab.Vindol.II, p. 266, for the ease with which these two names can be confused palaeographically. Here, however, the fifth letter can only be c so that the reading is not in doubt.

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