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Ostacon bearing Coptic inscriptions

Ostacon bearing Coptic inscriptions
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Aly and M. Magdy

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Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0926

Inv.Inventory
 (Coptic Museum) 4444

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Ostracon bearing a request for Flax written in Coptic

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.
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