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  1. Using Ostraca in the Ancient World New Discoveries and Methodologies
    Contributor: Caputo, Clementina (Publisher); Lougovaya, Julia (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be... more

     

    Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspects, and textual peculiarities of ostraca.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Caputo, Clementina (Publisher); Lougovaya, Julia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110712902
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    Subjects: Classical texts; Classical history / classical civilisation; Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
    Other subjects: ostraca; papyrology; Egyptology; Ancient Egypt
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (245 p.)