Egyptian ostracon with hieratic text

An image of Written Document. Ostracon. Hieratic text, both sides. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Limestone, length 0.19 m, width 0.19 m.

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Written Document. Ostracon. Hieratic text, both sides. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Limestone, length 0.19 m, width 0.19 m.

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Accession Number: E.56.1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 828 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 147.78kB

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antiquity document Egyptian Fitz_ANT hieratic text inscribed inscriptions limestone ostraca ostracon ostrakon script texts writing written document

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