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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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    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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    Topless dancer in a back bend, ostrakon, 13th Century B.C., New Kingdom...
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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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    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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