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...

moon. The ostracon is inscribed both on the front and on the back (recto and verso). The frontside reads: And the backside: When the ostracon was found...

The Stonemason Ostracon is a figured-limestone ostracon from the Ramesside period of Ancient Egypt, 19–20th Dynasties. The figured-ostracon is made in outline...

The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five lines of text, discovered in...

The Saqqara ostracon is an ostracon, an Egyptian antiquity tracing to the period of Djoser (2650 BC). It was excavated in or near 1925 in Djoser's Pyramid...

The three shekel ostracon is a pottery fragment bearing a forged text supposedly dating from between the 7th and 9th centuries BCE. It is 8.6 centimeters...

The Yahad Ostracon is a controversial ostracon (text-bearing potsherd) that was found at the ruins of Qumran in 1996. The editors who published the text...

political affiliation of Khirbet Qeiyafa as well as the language of the ostracon. "A dating in the Iron I–II transition, the mid 10th century, assuming...

The Ostracon of Senemut is an ancient Egyptian limestone ostracon which dates from the reign of Hatshepsut (1479 BC – 1458 BC), in the 18th Dynasty. The...

Amenemope have been identified on a scrap of papyrus, four writing tablets, an ostracon, and a graffito, bringing the total number of witnesses to eight. Unfortunately...

The Ostracon of Prince Sethherkhepshef is a painted limestone figured-ostracon of the son of Ramesses III (reigned 1186–1155 BCE). It is a standing, figured...

The Assur ostracon and tablets are a series of Aramaic or Phoenician inscriptions found during the 1903-13 excavations of Assur by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft...

The Ophel ostracon or KAI 190, is an ostracon discovered in Jerusalem in 1924 by R. A. Stewart Macalister and John Garrow Duncan, in the area of Wadi...

Proto-Canaanite inscription is the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon, a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon believed to be the longest Proto-Canaanite inscription...

Klaus Wedekind have both attempted to demonstrate that the language of an ostracon found in Saqqara is an ancestor of Beja, and were both of the opinion that...

The Yavne-Yam ostracon, also known as the Mesad Hashavyahu ostracon, is an ostracon containing a written appeal by a field worker to the fortress's governor...

Meroitic ostracon...

A Ramesside period ostracon, depicting a homosexual couple in coitus (two men having sex together)...

documents theirs, ...." An example of a single scene is shown on the pictured ostracon. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squatting man, worshiping (hieroglyph)...

Satirical ostracon showing a cat guarding geese, c. 1120 BC, Egypt...

orders during Year 5 of this king's reign. The document is a hieratic ostracon or inscribed potshard and contains an announcement to the workmen of Deir...

Hieratic ostracon inscribed on both sides with many dots, possibly accounting records, limestone. 1292-1076 BC, New Kingdom. Museo Egizio, Turin (S. 6613)...

are addressed to Eliashib, thought to be the fort's quartermaster. One ostracon mentions "house of YHWH", which some scholars believe is a reference to...

slightly different ordering of the alphabet. The Zayit Stone, Izbet Sartah ostracon, and one inscription from Kuntillet Ajrud each contain a number of reverse...

Ostracon bearing the name of Cimon, Stoa of Attalos...

modern Beja. Francis Llewellyn Griffith identified the language of an ostracon discovered at Saqqara as "probably in the Blemmye language." Nubiologist...

Mount did not identify "even a trace" of the complex. The House of Yahweh ostracon, dated to the 6th century BCE, may refer to the First Temple. Two 21st...

or pointing to one of the answers written on a piece of papyrus or an ostracon. A combination of favorable geographical features contributed to the success...

An ostracon with Pericles' name written on it (c. 444–443 BC), Museum of the ancient Agora of Athens...

The association with the prophet is tenuous, based on the date of the ostracon (the second half of the ninth century), the rarity of the name, and the...