Vindolanda writing tablet number 146
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
fragment is complete at the left- and right-hand margins. The back contains
remains of three lines, much abraded and perhaps erased, written across the
grain.
The marked serif on i
and the form of n
following are interesting. There are two marks at the end of the line, one
horizontal and one oblique like an apex. It is not clear whether either or both
of these are ink and, if so, deliberate marks of punctuation (see above, p.57
and cf. 248.i.2 note).
For the name Candidus in these reports see 148.1. The name is very common (cf. 181.2) and it is possible that these
are two different men. Unfortunately the name of the century to which the
Candidus of 146
belongs is not preserved.