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writing-tablet
Object Type
writing-tablet
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
Romano-British
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Vindolanda
Materials
wood
$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
Purchased from:
The Vindolanda Trust
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