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    Ostracon (redirect from Ostrakon)
    An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. In an...
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  • Sutiy. He might have been identical with another Sethi, mentioned on an ostrakon which is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Setepenre (“Chosen of Re”)...
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    Neo-Latin; from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós) 'soft', and όστρακον (óstrakon) 'shell') is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans just...
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    Italian papyrologist Medea Norsa published an ostrakon which preserves four stanzas of the poem. The ostrakon (PSI XIII.1300) was discovered in Egypt, and...
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    pottery shards that were used as voting tokens, called ostraka (singular: ostrakon ὄστρακον) in Greek. Broken pottery, abundant and virtually free, served...
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    Salento and scratched onto a fragment of a terracotta pot (an ostrakon). While the ostrakon itself is undoubtedly ancient, serious doubts have been raised...
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    Fragmentary limestone ostrakon composed by scribe Amennakht...
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    from the Greek word ὀστρύα (ostrúa), which may be related to ὄστρακον (óstrakon) "shell (of an animal)". Regarded as a weed tree by some foresters[who...
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    Ostrakon mentioning Xanthippus (484 BC)...
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    An ostrakon bearing the name "Aristeides [son] of Lysimachus", displayed in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens...
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    Malacostraca Malacostraca comes from the Greek malakós meaning soft and óstrakon meaning shell. The name is misleading, since normally the shell is hard...
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    19th Dynasty ostrakon inscribed with part of the Satire of the trades. Turin, Museo Egizio...
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    group, named "ostracoderms" to mean 'shell-skinned' (from Greek ὄστρακον óstrakon + δέρμα dérma). Ostracoderms have heads covered with a bony shield. They...
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    7-13 Maria Giulia, Amadasi Guzzo; José-Ángel, Zamora Lopez (2008). "Un ostrakon phénicien de Tavira (Portugal)". Vicino Oriente. 14: 231. https://wanderingportugal...
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    Ostrakon with fragment of the Prophecy of Neferti at LACMA (M.80.203.196)...
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    Topless dancer in a back bend, ostrakon, 13th Century B.C., New Kingdom...
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    Hans-W.; Krebernik, Manfred (2016). "Zu den Buchstabennamen auf dem Halaḥam-Ostrakon aus TT 99 (Grab des Sennefri)". Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und...
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    Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures the University of Chicago an ostrakon, 20th dynasty, from Deir el-Medina the Papyrus Chassinat I, also known...
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  • an ostrakon (now in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence) is only a hypothesis. In a partly different treatment of the Florence ostrakon, a...
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    'ostracism'—each Athenian citizen was required to write on a shard of pottery (ostrakon) the name of a politician that they wished to see exiled for a period of...
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  • eretrizzare!’ Una nuova proposta di lettura e d’interpretazione di un ostrakon attico". In Syggraphé. Materiali e appunti per lo studio della storia e...
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  • Eta (heta) in the function of /h/ on the ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates, 487 BC. Inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚLES HIΠΠΟΚRATOS. On display in the Ancient...
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    in total. Four vase sherds were found at Thera with signs, as well as a ostrakon with one sign. A vessel fragement was found at Miletus. Two pithoi with...
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    Ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates (inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚΛΕΣ ΗΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΟΣ), 487 BC. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa...
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    Espanca signary. Recently,[when?] an inscription made on one side of an ostrakon from the site in Villasviejas del Tamuja (Botija, Caceres) has been identified...
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    Ostrakon with the beginning of the Ghost story. Terracotta from Deir el-Medina, 19th–20th Dynasties, New Kingdom of Egypt. Found by Ernesto Schiaparelli...
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    Greek ostrakon...
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    holding Hatshepsut is inscribed with her charge, which is repeated on an ostrakon now in Vienna. Although not a member of the royal family, she received...
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    but most ostracods are deposit feeders. Ostracod comes from the Greek óstrakon meaning shell or tile. Ostracods are "by far the most common arthropods...
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  • ostrac- shell Greek ὄστρειον (óstreion), ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō), ὄστρακον (óstrakon) Entomostraca, Leptostraca, Malacostraca, ostracism, ostracize, ostracod...
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