IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 59137 accession number: E.GA.4690.1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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 title: unknown LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/59137 TECHNIQUES ---------- reused thrown CATEGORIES ------ category: vessel DATING ------ creation date: 401 - 600 creation date earliest: 401 creation date latest: 600 culture: Coptic DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 0.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.6 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/E_GA_4690_1943.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/mid_E_GA_4690_1943.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/E_GA_4690_1943.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/preview_E_GA_4690_1943.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels