Egyptian ostracon with 5 lines of hieratic text

An image of Written Document. Ostracon. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Fragment of jar, with 5 lines of hieratic text in black ink. Depth 0.009 m, length 0.147 m, width 0.123 m.

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Written Document. Ostracon. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Fragment of jar, with 5 lines of hieratic text in black ink. Depth 0.009 m, length 0.147 m, width 0.123 m.

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Accession Number: E.75.1926
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 937 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 494.65kB

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Ancient Egypt antiquity document Egyptian Fitz_ANT fragment hieratic text inscribed jar ostraca ostracon ostrakon script texts writing written document

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