Vindolanda writing tablet number 139
A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas
J.R. Ratcliff
Digital edition: 1
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford
2001-09-03
Alan K. Bowman and J. David Thomas, The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses II), British Museum Publications ( London), 1994
EnglishAncient GreekLatin
This fragmentary report is written in a good, regular hand. The serifs on i and the form of a in impe]dimenta are noteworthy; in the latter di may be a ligature.
There is an apex-like mark over q which we take to indicate the abbreviation
of qui (see
above, p.75). This is the only clear example of a marked abbreviation of this
word (cf. 145).
There is a mark at the left-hand edge which, if it is ink, may be an ascender
from a line below.