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Looking at the Material: One Hundred Years of Studying Ostraca from Egypt
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2019
Antike Texte und ihre Materialität
Ceramic potsherds were one of the most commonly used writing materials in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond. The widespread use of pottery fragments for writing was probably due to the fact that they were easy to find and came at no cost to anyone who could write.1 Inscribed sherds, which are usually referred to as 'ostraca', are studied primarily for the texts they bear, without much attention paid to the material aspects of the writing support, such as the type of clay, the treatment of
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