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Collections

Ostracon with Demotic Inscriptionearly Demotic Period - Ptolemaic Period (650 - 30 BCE)

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Pottery ostracon, a broken ceramic shard with multiple lines of cursive script in dark ink, possibly Aramaic or Coptic, on a tan-gray surface with a diagonal crack
Ceramic ostracon, a roughly trapezoidal pottery sherd covered in multiple lines of Demotic script in dark ink, with a diagonal crack running across the upper half of the fragment.
Title
Ostracon with Demotic Inscription
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
early Demotic Period - Ptolemaic Period (650 - 30 BCE)
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (14 x 14 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jerome F. Snyder
Accession Number
M.80.202.200
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Collecting Area
Egyptian Art