Vindolanda writing tablet number
221
A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas
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- J. R. Ratcliff
Digital edition: 1
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford
2002-12-02
Alan K. Bowman and J. David Thomas, The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses II), British Museum Publications ( London), 1994
English
Ancient Greek
Latin
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A fragment of a leaf containing one line of a letter and, on the back, an address to Flavius Genialis. It is very odd that the address is written upside down in relation to the writing on the front, but so little survives of this letter that we cannot elucidate this.
. . . . .
et om..ra a.....[
uacat
Fláuio Geni-
al[i
. . . .
We expect some recognisable part of a closing formula but the traces do not suggest anything familiar.
For the division of the cognomen between two lines cf. [213].back; for the use of the apex mark see above, pp.57-61.