Tab.Vindol. 665. Ink writing tablet

Support

Type of object
Ink writing tablet
Material
Wood
Dimensions
W 106 mm × H 22 mm mm
Site
Vindolanda
Site period
4?
Site context
SG/NE
Find date
1993
Modern location
Now in the British Museum.
Institution/acc. #
British Museum: 1995,0701.57
Inv. no.
93.1265

Text field

Style of lettering
Written in a practised hand, which has a pronounced slope to the right.

Text

Origin of text
Vindolanda
Ancient site
Vindolanda
Text type
Private document
Tablet Category
Letters
Date
a.d. 104-120?
Dating criteria
context, site period

Introduction

Five lines of a letter, written along the grain but sloping downwards. The writing is complete at left, with a substantial margin, and probably complete at right. Since the back is blank, we are likely to have a left-hand column.

Edition

.  .  .
traces
quoḍ P̣rịsciṇum n(ostrum) ịṇ-
commodiụs ṃansisse
scrịpsisti mihi t.....[
rum...[
.  .  .

Translation

… because you wrote to me that our Priscinus had remained rather inconveniently(?)…

Commentary and notes

2.  No doubt this is the Priscinus whose correspondence is preserved in 295-298 and 636-638; see also 663.

n(ostrum): the abbreviation is indicated by a superscript bar over n (cf. Tab.Vindol.II, p.54) and a medial point following.

The reading to the right of this is uncertain and there may have been more than just two letters. We have also considered ịạṃ.

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