Roman clay ostracon

An image of Written Document. Ostracon. Production Place: Egypt. Clay, height 0.086 m, width 0.115 m, 101-200. Middle Roman.

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Written Document. Ostracon. Production Place: Egypt. Clay, height 0.086 m, width 0.115 m, 101-200. Middle Roman.

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Accession Number: GR.P.51
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 843 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 115.58kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 160
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2009:03:06 16:58:51

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2nd Century AD antiquity clay document Elephantine Fitz_ANT Middle Roman ostraca ostracon ostrakon Roman script texts writing written document

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