Vindolanda writing tablet number
270
A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas
Digital edition: 1
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford
Alan K. Bowman and J. David Thomas, The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses II), British Museum Publications ( London), 1994
EnglishAncient GreekLatin
Fragments
of a double leaf containing parts of two columns of a letter to Cerialis. The
hand bears some resemblance to that of 249 (from Oppius Niger),
though the e in the latter is somewhat taller.
].
Ceriali suo
salutem
]rdiam agere
]culus ne cuiquam
]d
moram fecit
].r.s..rd[
. . . . .
aspr[
sebam[
cum
h[
tuu[
as
r[
sub[
. . .
].ntiam, ed. pr. The earlier reading cannot be ruled out but
we now prefer ]rdiam.]culus, ed. pr., ]sulus, CEL. The
latter is a possible reading.
Perhaps cf. Licinius Asper (224), but the word division may be -as
pr[.