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Limestone ostracon
Writing board, part missing. Ruled Egyptian text in Demotic script from the 'Tale of Pedubastet'. Both the Egyptian Demotic language and Greek co-existed during the Ptolemaic period but Greek was the official language of administration. Demotic is a cursive form of hieroglyphic script.
There are two holes across the left-hand edge, about 0.8 cm in diamter and 6 cm apart, of unknown purpose
Length: 16.3 cm
Thickness: 1.9 cm
Width: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
Ptolemaic Period
Circa
-0332
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Circa
-0030
Accession number: E.GA.4695.1943
Primary reference Number: 59142
Oldadmincategory: SS
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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