To its front the thin rectangular tablet has a recessed panel with seventeen lines of cursive text in black ink, on the reverse there is a shallow rectangular vertical recess and a further twenty lines of text. Pierced twice on the upper and lower edges to allow several such tablets to be bound together.

The text shows that this is the second tabula of a testament consisting normally of three tablets. It contains, in a highly formalistic legal language, legacies for various persons (inter alia a Iulia) who receive certain items, such as sheep and clothes.

The inset interior of each side would have allowed a thin layer of wax to be melted onto the surface. Once smoothed and dried, this acted as a reusable surface to writing. The current example lost this wax in antiquity and subsequently the wooden surface was written on directly. This could have been done to preserve the importance of the writing.