IDENTIFIERS
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id:	59142
accession number:	E.GA.4695.1943

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
title:	writing board

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/59142





TECHNIQUES
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inscribed

CATEGORIES
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category: written document

DATING
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creation date:	332 - 30
creation date earliest:	332
creation date latest:	30
culture:	Ptolemaic Period


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 16.3

dimension: Thickness
units: cm
value: 1.9

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 11.8



CITATIONS
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Two inscribed objects in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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