ostracon

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Object Type
Museum number: EA44728
Description: Pottery ostracon with 9 lines of text on one side containing a tax receipt.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 729 (?; 6 March (Biedenkopf-Ziehner 2000)); 727 (?23 June (Delattre 2002))
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Egypt, probably from the Theban Region
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 12.50 centimetres; Width: 11 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Bibliographic references: Biedenkopf-Ziehner 2000a / Koptische Ostraka I: Ostraka aus dem Britischen Museum in London (167-170, pl.16); Delattre 2002 / Le reçu de taxe O. Brux. Inv. E. 375 (no. 2 (p.364-65)); Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (82881) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/82881)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1907
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA44728
Registration number: 1907,0112.1338
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: KSB III 1424; Miscellaneous number: O.Brit.Mus.Copt. II 15 (text edition abbreviation according to Oates et al 2001)

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