IDENTIFIERS
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id:	59137
accession number:	E.GA.4690.1943

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: An ostrakon is a reused fragment of pottery or stone and can contain notes, sketches, receipts or letters. The example here is a letter in Saidic Coptic from the priest Markos to a holy father, begging him to send incense through a certainn Kyriakos, as arranged. Body sherd, with 14 lines of Coptic on one side and 3 lines inside, in black ink
title:	unknown

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/59137





TECHNIQUES
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reused
thrown

CATEGORIES
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category: vessel

DATING
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creation date:	401 - 600
creation date earliest:	401
creation date latest:	600
culture:	Coptic


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 0.9

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.6



IMAGES

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format: jpeg
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width: 760 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
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height: 375 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/E_GA_4690_1943.jpg
height: 570 pixels
width: 760 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant16/preview_E_GA_4690_1943.jpg
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width: 250 pixels