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Clay ostrakon
An ostrakon is a reused fragment of pottery or stone and can contain notes, sketches, receipts or letters. The example here is a letter in Saidic Coptic from the priest Markos to a holy father, begging him to send incense through a certainn Kyriakos, as arranged. Body sherd, with 14 lines of Coptic on one side and 3 lines inside, in black ink
Depth: 0.9 cm
Height: 17.1 cm
Width: 15.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1943)
by
Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
Coptic
Circa
401
-
600
Thrown : Reused
Accession number: E.GA.4690.1943
Primary reference Number: 59137
Oldadmincategory: P
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Clay ostrakon"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/59137 Accessed: 2022-05-28 12:18:40
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Accession Number: E.P.490
Accession Number: E.1.2013
Accession Number: E.P.532
Accession Number: GR.P.87
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