Ostrakon with Lines from Homer’s Iliad, 580–640, Made in Thebes, Byzantine Egypt, Coptic, Limestone with ink incription, 4 3/4 x 3 9/16 in. (12 x 9.1 cm), Miscellaneous-Stone, Ostraca are texts written on broken pottery, which were employed when parchment was unavailable or too expensive. At Epiphanius a large number of ostraca were discovered in the monastery, including in its rubbish heaps; they record biblical verses, legal documents, sermons, financial accounts, school texts, and letters requesting assistance and prayers
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Ostrakon, Lines, Homer, Iliad, 580–640, Thebes, Byzantine Egypt, Coptic, Limestone, ink incription, 4 3/4 x 3 9/16, 12 9.1 cm, Miscellaneous-Stone, Ostraca, texts written, broken pottery, employed, parchment, unavailable, too expensive, Epiphanius, large number, ostraca, discovered, monastery, rubbish heaps, record biblical verses, legal documents, sermons, financial accounts, school texts, letters requesting, assistance, prayers
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