Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110712865)

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.

Author: Clementina Caputo
ISBN-10: 3110712865
ISBN-13: 9783110712865
Publisher: de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2020
Pages: 251
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.90w x 0.90d