ostracon
- Museum number
- 125701
- Description
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Lachish Ostracon I (Lachish Letter I): pottery ostracon with Hebrew inscription (body fragment of wheel-made storage jar?); brown fabric with a few grits, greenish buff on exterior surface.
- Dimensions
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Thickness: 0.50 - 0.80 centimetres
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Length: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 8.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G57/dc10)
- Condition
- ink faded in places.
- Acquisition date
- 1959
- Acquisition notes
- Previously on loan from Wellcome Trustees since 1937.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 125701
- Registration number
- 1959,0711.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: FN.4022
