writing-tablet

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Object Type
Museum number: 1986,1001.167
Description: Wood writing tablet in ink, letter about transportation of stone (fragment 316). Also non-joining fragments, including one with four lines of shorthand (fragment 122).
Cultures/periods
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Vindolanda
Materials
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: 'This stone was perhaps intended for road-making rather than builidng work.... Whatever would they have thought, these two clerks, could they have seen the quarrying and carting that were soon going to be needed for Hadrian's Wall? The Emperor himself would be keeping Vocontius up to the mark.' (Tomlin 2018, 80-1).
Bibliographic references: Tab. Vindol. II / The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses II) (119); Tomlin 2018 / Britannia Romana. Roman inscriptions & Roman Britain (4.18; pps. 80-1)
Location: On display (G49/dc2)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1986
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1986,1001.167
Additional IDs: Excavation/small finds number: 85.183.a-b
Conservation: Treatment: 07 Nov 1997; Treatment: 02 Jul 1997; Treatment: 18 Sep 2019

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