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other earthenware vessel. In an
archaeological or
epigraphical context,
ostraca refer to
sherds or even
small pieces of
stone that have
writing scratched...
- The Arad
ostraca, also
known as the
Eliashib Archive, is a
collection of more than 200
inscribed pottery shards (also
known as
sherds or potsherds) found...
- The
Samaria Ostraca are 102
ostraca found in 1910 in
excavations in
ancient Samaria (modern-day Sebastia, Nablus) led by
George Andrew Reisner of the...
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Satirical ostraca are a
category of
ostraca (singular: an ostracon) that
represent the real
world in unrealistic,
impossible situations–a satire. The...
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Ostraca consist of
thousands of do****ents from the
Egyptian border fortresses of
Elephantine and Aswan,
which yielded hundreds of
papyri and
ostraca in...
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Parasitic Arthropoda 1,257,000 Yes 1,000,000 (insects) Yes >40,000 (Malac-
ostraca) Yes 94,000 Yes Yes >45,000
Mollusca 85,000 107,000 Yes 35,000 Yes 60,000...
- The
Medical Ostraca of Deir el-Medina are a
collection of
ostraca containing notes of
medical importance.
These ostraca were
written in the New Kingdom...
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Senenmut (Ancient Egyptian: sn-n-mwt,
sometimes spelled Senmut, Senemut, or Senmout) was an 18th
Dynasty ancient Egyptian architect and
government official...
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Fisher and D.G. Lyon. Reisner's dig
unearthed the
Samaria Ostraca, a
collection of 102
ostraca written in the Paleo-Hebrew Script. A
second expedition was...
- The Tel
Qasile ostraca are two
small ostraca (pottery
fragments with
writing on them)
found at Tell Qasile, then part of
Mandatory Palestine, in 1945–46...
