- An
ostracon (Gr****: ὄστρακον ostrakon,
plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a
piece of pottery,
usually broken off from a vase or
other earthenware vessel. In an...
- The
Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in)
ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five
lines of text,
discovered in...
- The
Stonemason Ostracon is a figured-limestone
ostracon from the
Ramesside period of
Ancient Egypt, 19–20th Dynasties. The figured-
ostracon is made in outline...
- The
three shekel ostracon is a
pottery fragment bearing a
forged text
supposedly dating from
between the 7th and 9th
centuries BCE. It is 8.6 centimeters...
- moon. The
ostracon is
inscribed both on the
front and on the back (recto and verso). The
frontside reads: And the backside: When the
ostracon was found...
-
Semnonian tribe whose existence was
revealed by the
archaeological find of an
ostracon, a pot
shard of the type that was used by
scribes to
write receipts in...
- The
Saqqara ostracon is an
ostracon, an
Egyptian antiquity tracing to the
period of
Djoser (2650 BC). It was
excavated in or near 1925 in Djoser's Pyramid...
- also
mentions Yahweh.
Dated slightly later (7th
century BCE)
there are an
ostracon from the
collections of
Shlomo Moussaieff,[full
citation needed] and two...
- The Yavne-Yam
ostracon, also
known as the
Mesad Hashavyahu ostracon, is an
ostracon containing a
written appeal by a
field worker to the fortress's governor...
- The
Ostracon of
Senemut is an
ancient Egyptian limestone ostracon which dates from the
reign of
Hatshepsut (1479 BC – 1458 BC), in the 18th Dynasty. The...
