Category:
Written documents, ostraca (ostraka)
Date:
Byzantine Period (395-641 CE)
Provenance:
Upper Egypt, Luxor (Thebes), West Bank, Deir El Bahari
Material(s):
Man made material, pottery (terracotta)
Height:
12 cm;
Width:
17 cm;
Thickness:
1.3 cm
Hall:
Byzantine Antiquities, showcase 20
The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.
References
- Walter E. Crum, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire (Nr. 8001/8741): Coptic monuments (Cairo: Imprimerie de Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1902): 55, no. 8212.
- Walter E. Crum, Coptic Ostraca: From the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and Others (London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902): 60, no. 341.
- Matthias Müller, “Some Theban Ostraca”, in Sortieren – Edieren – Kreieren: Zwischen Handschriftenfunden und Universitätsalltag: Stephen L. Emmel zum 70 Geburtstag gewidmet, edited by Frank Feder et al., Aegyptiaca Monasteriensia 8 (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2022): 419-428, no. 3, fig. 3.