IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 64549 accession number: E.P.490 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fragment of a clay jar that has been reused as a writing document and contains 8 lines of Meroitic, a Nubian language. The text seems to refer to work on a shrine. the clay is typical of that found in Aswan (southern Egypt/Nubia). Broken vessel fragments were often used for a variety of receipts, notes or accounts. This type of object is called an ostrakon. object type: fragment of clay jar, with 8 lines of inscription in Meroitic title: ostrakon LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/64549 CATEGORIES ------ category: written document DATING ------ creation date: 1 - 400 creation date earliest: 1 creation date latest: 400 culture: Roman DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: m value: 0.105 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_P_490.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 579 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_P_490.jpg height: 656 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_P_490.jpg height: 760 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