Ostrakon on wall plaster, with part of 6 lines of text on the smoothed side
Depth: 0.014 m
Height: 0.068 m
Width: 0.062 m
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: Bequeathed (1945) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
Accession number: E.GA.861.1947
Primary reference Number: 60987
Oldadmincategory: M
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Ostracon" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/60987 Accessed: 2023-02-08 08:41:32
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/60987
|title=Ostracon
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-08 08:41:32|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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