Using Ostraca in the Ancient World

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Using Ostraca in the Ancient World is written by Clementina Caputo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110712954 (ISBN 10) and 9783110712957 (ISBN 13).

Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspects, and textual peculiarities of ostraca.