Using Ostraca in the Ancient World
Using Ostraca in the Ancient World

Author: Clementina Caputo

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3110712954

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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.

New Kingdom Ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
New Kingdom Ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Author: Fredrik Hagen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-01-17

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9004183760

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This book publishes a previously unknown collection of hieratic ostraca from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The texts include a broad range of genres, including wisdom literature, religious hymns, magical texts, medical recipes, private letters, administrative notes, scribal exercises (Kemit), and copies of tomb inscriptions. Each ostracon is presented with photographs, facsimile drawings and hieroglyphic transcriptions, as well as translations and brief philological commentaries. Many of the texts can be linked to the village of Deir el-Medina on internal evidence, and the book offers new data to scholars working with material from this famous site.

Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
Hieratic Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

Author: A. G. McDowell

Publisher: Griffith Inst

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780900416590

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This volume presents the twenty-seven limestone and hieratic ostraca collected by the Reverend Colin Campbell in Egypt at the turn of the century and donated by him to the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. All but one come from the New Kingdom community of Deir el-Medina, the exception being a Ptolemaic copy of the Offering of the mnw-vase, hitherto known only from inscriptions. The main group of ostraca contains hymns, magical, literary, administrative, legal and economic texts. Particularly interesting examples include a letter about the inheritance of a group of slaves, and what appears to be record of a son's support for his retired father. Many of these texts are published here for the first time; they are presented in facsimiles and transcriptions, and furnished with full translation and commentary. Indexes of personal names and Egyptian words discussed in the commentary complete the book.