Ostracon
There are 24 items in Ostracon:
![]() Elephantine, Ostracon recording a census |
![]() Gordium, Phrygian inscription "Midas" |
![]() Hamadan, Sasanian ostracon about receiving a ration of food |
![]() Mechta Ras et Trouch, Ostracon from the Vandal age |
Ostracism
Ostracism, "the judgment of the potsherds": Athenian juridical practice in which a potentially dangerous person would be exiled from the city without loss of property or civil rights. …Ostracon
Ostracon: an inscribed potsherd. Sahidic ostracon from Thebes We are accustomed to write on paper. The ancients used papyrus or parchment, but…