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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
Samaria Ostraca are 102
ostraca found in 1910 in
excavations in
ancient Samaria (modern-day Sebastia, Nablus) led by
George Andrew Reisner of the...
- 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...
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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 35,000 60,000 5,000...
- of the
biblical Asa and Baasha.
Ostraca House – (probably
about 850 BC, at
least prior to 750 BC) 64
legible ostraca found in the
treasury of Ahab – written...
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Jeremiah (Hebrew: יִרְמְיָהוּ, romanized: Yirmĭyāhu, lit. 'Yah
shall raise', Koinē Gr****: Ἰερεμίας, romanized: Ieremíās; c. 650 – c. 570 BC), also called...
- part of the
collection at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally,
ostraca in
Egypt were used for artist's sketchings, cartoons-caricatures, letter...
- 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...
