Tab.Vindol. 296. Correspondence of Priscinus

Support

Type of object
Ink writing tablet
Material
Wood
Dimensions
W 107 mm × H 34 mm mm
Site
Vindolanda
Site period
4
Site context
III
Find date
1985
Modern location
Now in the British Museum.
Institution/acc. #
British Museum: 1986,1001.51
Inv. no.
85.046, 85.047

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. 104-120
Dating criteria
context, site period

Introduction

Two joining fragments of the left-hand portion of a diptych containing the opening of a letter from Flavius Conianus to Priscinus. It is the very clear and distinctive p at the beginning and c in the middle of the name of the addressee on which we base our view that the name of the person with whom this small group of letters is associated is Priscinus rather than Crispinus (contrast Tab.Vindol.I 30-33).

Edition

[F]ḷạuius F̣ontaṇus Priscino [ suo]
ṣạḷ[utem]
.  .  .

Apparatus

1.  C̣oniaṇus Tab.Vindol.II.

Translation

No translation.

Commentary and notes

1.  C̣oniaṇus: we could perhaps read C̣oniaṛịus but it is less attractive. The form of c, with a diagonal stroke at the bottom, is unusual. The cognomen Conianus is unattested but note the rare gentilicium Conius, attested in Spain, Dalmatia and Sardinia (?) (NPEL); there is also a gentilicium (?) Coriarius, AE 1978.123 (Puteoli), but that might be a misreading. This name does not appear elsewhere in the Vindolanda tablets.

Notes from Tab.Vindol. III Appendix:

1.  Instead of C̣oniaṇus read F̣ontanus (and cf. 325).

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