ostracon

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Object Type
Museum number: EA66296
Description: Ostracon, limestone. Four lines of black-painted demotic text on one side.
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Osireion (Abydos), Temenos wall (south of) west trench 16.I.26
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 7.10 centimetres (max); Thickness: 4.10 centimetres (max); Width: 7.60 centimetres (max)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Being studied for publication by Bryan Kraemer. Cemeteries and Osireion Excavations Group
Bibliographic references: Trismegistos / An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphic resources (393824) (http://www.trismegistos.org/text/393824); Almásy-Martin 2020 / Demotic, Greek and Coptic ostraca from Abydos in the British Museum (no.18)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair
Acquisition date: 1926
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA66296
Registration number: 1926,0728.317
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: O.BM Abydos Dem. 18 (Edition abbreviation according to Oates et al. 2001)

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