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ostrakon|ˈɒstrəkɒn|
Also ostracon. Pl. ostraka, -ca.
[ad. Gr. ὄστρακον potsherd.]
A sherd of pottery or (more rarely) limestone used in antiquity as a surface for writing or inscribing, often, at Athens and in other Greek cities, to cast a vote (see ostracism 1), or as a common writing material. Used (freq. in pl.) of archæological finds of this kind in the Middle East.
1883Proc. Soc. Biblical Archaeol. V. 84 The British Museum has lately acquired..a considerable number of ostraka or potsherds discovered at Elephantine, Thebes, and other places. Ibid. 119 Two ostraka or slices of lime⁓stone formed for the purpose, inscribed with hieratic inscriptions. 1900Athenæum 23 June 783/1 The study of Greek ostraca is a comparatively new one. 1921G. A. F. Knight Nile & Jordan 251 The name Bata has been recovered in a hieratic ostrakon. 1934Discovery Apr. 90/2 The smaller finds include..actual ostraca from the voting of 483 B.C. when ‘Aristides the Just’ was banished. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. i. iv. 114 Two late mathematical papyri,..as well as Coptic ostraca from Wādī Sarga (near Asyūt)..contain unmistakable examples of Egyptian computation. 1960[see find n. 4]. 1968V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates Notes 414 The number of ostraca found by archaeologists gives little evidence as to the actual results of the voting. 1972Times 18 May (Egypt Suppl.) p. iv/4 During the excavation of the temple terrace, many fragments of stone stelae and ostraca (inscriptions on potsherds) were found bearing dedications to Isis. 1978N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 21 May 39/1 Demotic is known today from papyri and ostraca—broken bits of pot that have been scribbled on. |