Egyptian ostracon with hieratic script

An image of Written Document. Ostracon. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Fragment of jar, with 2 vertical lines of hieratic text in red ink. Depth 0.0095 m, length 0.072 m, width 0.086 m.

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Written Document. Ostracon. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Fragment of jar, with 2 vertical lines of hieratic text in red ink. Depth 0.0095 m, length 0.072 m, width 0.086 m.

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Accession Number: E.76.1926
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 926 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 145.51kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 160
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2009:03:06 17:25:04

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