Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · ostracon

Ostracon Late Period–PtolemaicMedinet Habu

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Description

Ostracon, Demotic. Late Period–Ptolemaic, ca. 600–30 B.C. Pottery, ink. From: Medinet Habu, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: Davis excavations, 1912–13. Credit: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914.

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Found at Medinet Habu
Materials PotteryInk
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