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ostracon
Object Type
ostracon
Museum number
EA23782
Description
Cream-coloured pottery ostracon, from the wall and base of a carenated cup. The limit between the wall and base is grooved. A few signs from the end of a black-painted line of hieratic text, of which the word nht 'sycamore' is only visible, have been painted on the base of the wall of the vessel.
Cultures/periods
26th Dynasty
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Tell Dafana
Materials
pottery
Dimensions
Diameter:
11 centimetres
(when intact)
Length:
3.40 centimetres
(max)
Width:
5.40 centimetres
(max)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
One of "about a dozen fragments of demotic inscriptions on pieces of jars and cups" mentioned by W.M.F. Petrie, Tanis ii, Nebesheh and Defenneh, p. 74 § 71.
Bibliographic references
Petrie 1888 / Tanis. Part II. Nebesheh (Am) and Defenneh (Tahpanhes)
(p. 74 § 71)
Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources
(389620)
(http://www.trismegistos.org/text/389620)
Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town
(p.117, p.227, pl.69)
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date
1887
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA23782
Registration number
1887,0101.826