A fragment of a leaf with two lines of a letter. The content is exiguous but the reference to libros in line 2 is interesting and perhaps provides some context for the literary knowledge at Vindolanda attested in [118].
. . . . .
] ab Arcano an-
].set libros exse-
. . . . .
arcano: this word occurs in [162]. ab here suggests strongly that it is a personal name. It seems likely that we have the right-hand edge of the leaf with an the start of a word which continued in the next line.
The first trace does not look like s; perhaps we have a word ending in -s followed by et.
libros: before the first letter there is the descender from r in the previous line. Given the knowledge of Virgil, and perhaps of Catullus, attested at Vindolanda ([118], [119]), there is no reason to doubt the availability of books.
exse-: this suggests part of the verb exsequor, continuing in the next line (see line 1 note).