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Ostracon with chalk inscription

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 97.4.39. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 97.4.39
Find spot: Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Middle Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Roman Period
Date: 30 B.C.–A.D. 364
Date range: 30 BCE – 364 CE
Materials: ['pottery', 'chalk']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Ostracon with chalk inscription (97.4.39). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/52009

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Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Pottery, chalk. L. 17.5 × W. 10.4 cm (6 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.). From: Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1896–97. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897.

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