Part of the right-hand portion of a diptych containing the ends of four lines of a letter, written in a rather crude hand with thick strokes and much use of serifs; those on i and u are noteworthy. There are remains of an address on the back.
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]runt fatigat.e
]milare ad usum
].t enim ad ca[[.]]s.r
]eram adire Vin-
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traces
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fatigat.e: the reading is uncertain but is compatible with the traces. Possibly e]runt fatigatae with reference to mules, see [314].1 note.
Perhaps the end of similare (for simulare) or a compound. The m at the end of usum has a long tail.
ca[[.]]s.r: the letter between s and r looks like i but might be read as t. We would expect castra but there is no sign of final a even though there would have been room to squash it in; a word division with a on the next line is not credible. We might have a simple error of omission (castr<a>) or an unusual word-division castr/orum followed by an accusative noun with ad. The alternative reading adcasir seems to lead nowhere.
We could envisage adire Vin-/[dolandam, but there are other possibilities (e.g. Vin-/[ouia, cf. [185].26).
Tops of letters at the beginning of the name of the addressee. It may be just possible to reconcile the traces with Flaui[o; thereafter no reading can be offered.