Ostracon with Demotic text

Pottery ostracon (an inscribed potsherd), with 11 lines of Demotic inscription on one side; the text is a receipt for a rent payment on land owned by the temple of Amun at Thebes (modern Luxor); it is dated to 102 BC, in the reign of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy X Alexander I, and signed by witnesses.

Collection

Egyptology

Inventory Number

5957

Title

Ostracon with Demotic text

Object Type

3-D object

Measurements

- 10.1 cm; 10.1 cm;