Vindolanda writing tablet number
279
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
A
fragment from the beginning of a letter addressed to Cerialis. It is notable
that in lines 1 and 2 l has a long diagonal for the foot.
]...nus Ceriali
suo
salutem
]....[
.
. . . . .
The traces are too faint to allow any suggestion for the reading of the name.
If the termination is correctly read, we may note three possible names which
turn up in Cerialis' correspondence: Crispinus (225.1),
Iustinus (260.back 11), Hostilius Flavianus (261.1).