Ostracon | Egyptian, Hieroglyphic, Pottery | Britannica
ostracon, potshard or limestone flake used in antiquity, especially by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Hebrews, as a surface for drawings or sketches, or as an alternative to papyrus …
Ostracon - Ancient Egypt Online
When a vote was held on whether to banish a person from society these shards were used to cast votes. This is the origin of the word “ostracism” (literally meaning “to be voted out”). In ancient …
What is an ostracon? How the "scrap paper of the ancient world" …
2024年2月13日 · An ostracon is a piece of broken pottery, commonly used in the ancient world for writing letters, receipts, and notes — the ancient equivalent of scrap paper. This letter was …
Artifacts - Ancient Egyptian Ostracon - Archaeology Magazine
This ostracon was found by archaeologist Flinders Petrie in the late nineteenth century in an area identified as an artists’ school behind the Ramesseum, a large temple across the Nile from ...
Ancient Egyptian Ostraca: A Reevaluation - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2012年10月10日 · My research focused specifically on the "figured," or illustrated, ostraca that some Egyptologists interpret as visual parodies of Egyptian social hierarchy. 1 These images …
Ostracon Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of OSTRACON is a fragment (as of pottery) containing an inscription —usually used in plural.
Ostracon | New Kingdom, Ramesside - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are potsherds used as surfaces for writing or drawing. By extension, the term is applied to chips of limestone which were employed for similar purposes. Figural …
Ostracon | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are potsherds used as surfaces on which to write or draw. The term is used, by extension, to refer to chips of limestone, which were employed for similar purposes.
ostracon - British Museum
Ostracon with register of attendance at work. Labelled 'Year 40' of Ramses II, it provides a workmen's register for 280 days of the year. There are twenty-four lines of New Egyptian …
Ostracon - Archaeology News Online Magazine
2021年3月11日 · Ostraca (singular: Ostracon) are small fragments of pottery, stone, or other materials that were used as a writing surface in ancient times. The word ‘ostracon’ comes from …
Bes Ostracon - Egypt Museum
This limestone ostracon from the artisans village of Deir el-Medina (Egyptian: Set Ma’at = “The Place of Truth“), shows a beautifully intricate line drawing of the dwarf god Bes.
Ostraca: Voices from the Place of Truth—An intimate glimpse …
2017年10月20日 · If citizens had done something terrible, they ran the risk of being exiled from the city for up to 10 years. An interesting system was put in place whereby citizen peers voted …
Ostracon - Livius
Ostracon: an inscribed potsherd. We are accustomed to write on paper. The ancients used papyrus or parchment, but also clay tablets, wax tablets, bones, and sherds of broken pots, …
Ostracon inscribed with identity marks and the name of female …
Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are potsherds used as surfaces on which to write or draw. The term is used, by extension, to refer to chips of limestone, which were employed for similar purposes.
ostracon - British Museum
Limestone ostracon: a flake of limestone with a hieratic text written in black ink on one naturally smooth side; the other remains blank. The eight lines of administrative text (part of a journal of …
Ostraca - Jewish Virtual Library
OSTRACA (Gr. ὄστρακον, plural ὄστρακα), ancient inscribed potsherds. Ostraca were common writing materials in antiquity which were used mainly for writing receipts, temporary records, …
Collections Online - British Museum
A potsherd (or occasionally a piece of limestone) used in the ancient world as a writing surface; in Classical Athens (and perhaps a few other ancient Greek cities), citizens used ostraca to vote …
Ostracon | Late Period–Ptolemaic Period - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Ostracon. Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. Date: 595–30 B.C. Geography: From Egypt, Western Desert; Kharga Oasis, Hibis, MMA excavations, 1908–10. Medium: Pottery, …
Ostracon | Middle Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Ostracon. Period: Middle Kingdom. Dynasty: Dynasty 11–12. Date: ca. 2030–1640 B.C. Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Unfinished Temple Site, …
Hieroglyph ostracon | New Kingdom - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Hieroglyph ostracon. Period: New Kingdom. Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reigns of Amenhotep II – Amenhotep III. Date: ca. 1427–1352 B.C. Geography: From Egypt, Upper …
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