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Using Ostraca in the Ancient World New Discoveries and Methodologies

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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 t...

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Other Authors: Caputo, Clementina (Editor), Lougovaya, Julia (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020
Series:Materiale Textkulturen 32
Subjects:
Classical texts
Classical history / classical civilisation
Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology
Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
ostraca
papyrology
Egyptology
Ancient Egypt
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (245 p.)
ISBN:9783110712902
Access:Open Access

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