Egyptian ostracon with hieratic text both sides

An image of Written Document. Ostracon. Hieratic text, both sides, black ink. Hieratic is a cursive form of the hieroglyphic script. The red ink corrects the black words. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Limestone, length 7.6 cm, width 11.3 cm, circa 1550 to circa 1069 B.C. New Kingdom.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Written Document. Ostracon. Hieratic text, both sides, black ink. Hieratic is a cursive form of the hieroglyphic script. The red ink corrects the black words. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Limestone, length 7.6 cm, width 11.3 cm, circa 1550 to circa 1069 B.C. New Kingdom.

Image data

Accession Number: E.GA.6119.1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 807 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 568.09kB

Key words

Ancient Egypt antiquity document Egyptian Fitz_ANT hieratic text inscribed inscriptions New Kingdom ostraca ostracon ostrakon script texts writing written document

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Egyptian ostracon with hieratic text both sides"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-878555547 Accessed: 2024-04-27 17:50:19

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-878555547
            |title=Egyptian ostracon with hieratic text both sides
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-27 17:50:19|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-213723

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant49/E_GA_6119_1943_1_201006_mfj22_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Limestone ostracon"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Egyptian ostracon with hieratic text both sides</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>