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Roman Inked Wooden Tablet for a Contract Between Bassus and Neronianus - 4th century A.D.. A reused tablet with a recessed panel on one side, the last tablet of a legal document which consisted of two (diptychon) or three tablets (triptychon); ten black inked lines of New Roman cursive script, the end of a record of a transaction?in formulaic legal language, probably a sales contract, between the buyer (emptor) Bassus and a person called Neronianus; traces of text (perhaps in rustic capitals) to the reverse. Cf. Rothenh?fer, P., Bl?nsdorf, J?rgen, Sana mente sanaque memoria testa-mentum feci: Eine testamentarische Verf?gung vom 12. April 340 n. Chr., Gephyra 13, 2016, pp.153-163; Rothenh?fer, P., Neues zum Testament des Pomponius Maximus aus dem Jahr 371 n. Chr., (forthcoming); see also Masi Doria, C., Dal testamento di Pomponius Maximus: prospettive del diritto ereditario tardo antico, in: Isola, L. (ed.), Klauselgestaltungen in R?mischen Testamenten, Berlin, 2022, pp.151-175; also see Thomas, J. D., Vindolanda: The Latin Writing Tablets, Britannia Monograph Series No 4, London, 1983, for examples of wooden tabulae re-used as writing surfaces; for examples of testamentary documents on wooden tablets that have survived, see FIRA III, p.47, for Anthony Silvanus from 142 AD, also see BGU VII 1695 for Safinnius Herminus; for another from Transfynydd, North Wales, see Arch. Camb. 150, pp.143-156; and see Bowman, A.K., Life and letters on the Roman frontier : Vindolanda and its people, London, 1994, for discussion of the uses of Roman writing tablets. Rothenhoefer, P., Neue r?mische Rechtsdokumente aus dem Byzacena-Archiv / New Roman Legal Documents from the Byzacena Archive, (forthcoming). 40 grams, 15.1 x 13.9 cm (6 x 5 1/2 in.). From an important London collection since 1975.Accompanied by a collection of two 1970s photographs of the the tablet. The contract follows standard Roman legal formulae. [No Reserve]