Using Ostraca in the Ancient World
New Discoveries and Methodologies
Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya
Materiale Textkulturen, 32
Hardcover
ISBN: 9783110712865
$91,99
[Open Access]


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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