Coptic Ostraka Letters

Artifacts featuring Coptic ostraka inscribed with letters from various centuries, highlighting everyday communication in ancient times.

Account of the supervisors for the construction of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon by the sculptor Phidias. 440-439 BC

Ostrakon with a Letter 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter 474870

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474836

Relief with running troops ca. 2465-2458 B.C. Old Kingdom Two lines of running soldiers wear aprons or kilts and carry sticks, bundled staves, and bows. At the end of each row runs a kilted figure, the one in the lower register carrying what appear to be bundled papyri. Remains of vertical rows of zigzag lines at the upper edge of the block indicate that, as was often the case with troop scenes, a nautical scene was associated, perhaps a royal voyage out to the temple of a god or goddess.Within the overall organization, the arrangement of the soldiers is highly varied and intricate. Such complexity and layering of overlapping elements mark the relief style of the pharaoh Userkaf. The relief carving itself is fairly flat.. Relief with running troops 543883

Ostrakon with a Letter from Jonah to Elias 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Jonah to Elias 474729

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474509

Ostrakon with a Letter from Joseph 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Joseph 474858

Account of the supervisors for the construction of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon by the sculptor Phidias. 440-439 BC

Ploty with Greek dedication for Ptolemy III, Bereniki and Dioskurów; 246-241 BC (-246-00-00--241-00-00);Greek, Greek inscriptions

Tablet to JuliaDomna

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon. Coptic. 7th century. Pottery fragment with ink inscription. Made in Byzantine Egypt. Ceramics

Ostrakon with a Letter 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter 474835

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 6 x 5 13/16 in. (15.2 x 14.7 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 2 3/8 x 4 1/8 in. (6 x 10.5 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon. Coptic. 7th century. Pottery fragment with ink inscription. Made in Byzantine Egypt. Ceramics

Ostrakon with a Letter from John to Moses. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 2 15/16 x 4 3/16 in. (7.5 x 10.7 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474510

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall: 4 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (11.5 x 15 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474526

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474612

Ostrakon with a Letter from Koletjew to Epiphanius 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Koletjew to Epiphanius 474790

Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements, Ebabbar archive ca. 7th-6th century B.C. Babylonian (). Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursements, Ebabbar archive 321698

Ostrakon with a Letter from Ananias to Priests 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Ananias to Priests 474850

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon. Coptic. 7th century. Pottery fragment with ink inscription. Made in Byzantine Egypt. Ceramics

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474837

Ostrakon 4th-7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474444

Chariots, Assyrian about 728 BC. From Nimrud. This wall-panel, one of a series, shows two disconnected scenes. Door-sill, Assyrian, 9th-8th century BC. From Nimrud. The text gives the name and genealogy of Adad-nirari III (810-783 BC) and was written in doorways of a palace built during his reign.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474629

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall: 10 9/16 x 7 5/16 x 3 15/16 in. (26.8 x 18.6 x 10 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Demotic Script, Egypt, Barter contract, a bull for other goods, Thebes, 1100 BC.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474553

Papyrus Fragment of a Letter from John to Epiphanius 7th century Coptic. Papyrus Fragment of a Letter from John to Epiphanius 474703

Ostrakon with a Letter from Frange to Enoch 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Frange to Enoch 474846

Ostrakon with a Letter from Enoch to His Parents. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 5 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. (14.9 x 8.6 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474450

Papyri Fragments of a Letter 7th century Coptic. Papyri Fragments of a Letter 474702

Ostracon Ptolemaic or Roman Period 304 B.C.-A.D. 364 View more. Ostracon. 304 B.C.-A.D. 364. Pottery, ink. Ptolemaic or Roman Period. From Egypt

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall: 5 13/16 x 6 5/8 in. (14.7 x 16.8 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ancient writing. Coptic gravestone with different calculations of times. Dated around 850 AD. Marble. Neues Museum (New Museum). Berlin. Germany.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 11/16 x 3 1/8 in. (9.3 x 8 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

FRAGMENTO DE VENDA DE MOMIA: CON INSCRIPCION EN ARAMEO Y DIBUJOS DE ALTAR DE OFRENDAS Y BARCO FUNERARIOEGIPCIO. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of animals for offering, Ebabbar archive ca. 600 B.C. Babylonian. Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of animals for offering, Ebabbar archive 321686

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 5/8 x 4 in. (9.2 x 10.2 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Papyri Fragments of a Letter to Andreas 7th century Coptic. Papyri Fragments of a Letter to Andreas 474700

Papyrus Fragment 4th-7th century Coptic. Papyrus Fragment 479306

Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Emerging in Sumer around the 30th century BCE, with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium (the Uruk IV period), cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs. In the three millennia the script spanned, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use also grew gradually smaller, from about 1,000 distinct characters in the Early Bronze Age to about 400 distinct characters in Late Bronze Age (Hittite cuneiform). The original Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hattic, Hurrian, and Urartian languages, and it inspired the Ugaritic and Old Persian alphabets. Cuneiform writing was gradually replaced by the Phoenician alphabet during the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and by the 2nd century CE, the script had become extinct. Cuneiform documents were written on clay tablets, by means of a blunt reed fo

Teaching of a man for his son (with red ink), hieratic New Kingdom, 1550-1075 BC Papyrus.

Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver ca. 537 B.C. Achaemenid. Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver 321954

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474558

Grecka inskrypcja dedykacyjna. unknown, author

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474524

The Wilbour Papyrus The Wilbour Papyrus, ca. 1147 B.C.E. Papyrus, ink, Glass: 15 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (40 x 46 cm). Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art ca. 1147 B.C.E.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall: 3 9/16 x 3 1/2 x 1/2 in. (9 x 8.9 x 1.2 cm). Date: 4th-7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Cuneiform tablet: Urra=hubullu, tablet 13, bilingual vocabulary of domestic animals ca. late 1st millennium B.C.. Cuneiform tablet: Urra=hubullu, tablet 13, bilingual vocabulary of domestic animals 321714

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474516

Greek inscription from Ain Arroub watercourse 1900, Ain Anoub Israel

Papyri Fragments of a Letter from Tagape 7th century Coptic. Papyri Fragments of a Letter from Tagape 474684

Inscribed pillar, 425 - 400 BC, the longest known Lycian inscription, commemorating the wars fought by Prince Kherei, Xanthos, Antalya Province, Turkey, Asia

Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive ca. 556-539 B.C. Babylonian. Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive 328791

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474619

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474507

Inscripción fundacional del Obispo Paulos. Año 707. Conmemora la renovación de la catedral en el 707. Griego. Arenisca. Procedente de Faras (Sudán). Galería Faras. Museo Nacional. Varsovia. Polonia.

Papyri Fragments of a Letter to Pesenthius 7th century Coptic. Papyri Fragments of a Letter to Pesenthius 474689

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 3/4 x 4 7/16 in. (9.6 x 11.2 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474559

Ostrakon with a List. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 4 7/16 in. (11.4 x 11.2 cm). Date: 580-640. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Demotic Temple Oath 127 BC Ptolemaic Period On December 6, 127 BCE, a man by the name of Patasetat was required to take an oath before Hathor denying his role in the case of cloths-theft. The oath was inscribed on this ostracon here and authorized by a priest in her temple. Similar texts, which involve adultery, theft, and failure to pay, testify to the role of temples in settling local disputes in Ptolemaic Egypt.. Demotic Temple Oath. 127 BC. Pottery, ink. Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt; Probably from Southern Upper Egypt, Gebelein (Krokodilopolis)

Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver ca. 652 B.C. Assyrian. Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver 321734

INSCRIPCION SOBRE RELIQUIAS. Location: MARIENKIRCHE. MERIDA. Badajoz. SPANIEN.

Papyrus 7th century Coptic. Papyrus 474653

Eight Groups of Papyrus Fragments Inscribed in Demotic and Greek Eight Groups of Papyrus Fragments Inscribed in Demotic and Greek, 664 B.C.E.-395 C.E. Papyrus, ink, 47.218.17a-3: Largest fragment: 2 9/16 × 1 9/16 in. (6.5 × 4 cm). Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art 664 B.C.E.-395 C.E.

Papyrus Fragment of a Letter 580-640 Coptic. Papyrus Fragment of a Letter 475007

Ostracon with Hieratic Inscription about a God - either Amen-Re or the Deified King Amenhotep I. Egypt, New Kingdom, 19th or 20th Dynasty (1315 - 1081 BCE). Tools and Equipment; ostraka. Terracotta

Papyri Fragments 7th century Coptic. Papyri Fragments 474659

From Tagu of Gath, Canaanite'. Amarna letters. Cuneiform. 14th century B.C.

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474819

Papyrus Fragment of a Letter ca. 600 Coptic. Papyrus Fragment of a Letter 479337

Papyrus Inscribed in Greek Papyrus Inscribed in Greek, ca. 215 C.E. (recto); 3rd century C.E. (verso). Papyrus, ink, Glass: 8 1/16 x 12 5/8 in. (20.5 x 32 cm). Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art ca. 215 C.E. (recto); 3rd century C.E. (verso)

Ostrakon with a Letter from Strategius to Cyriacus 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Strategius to Cyriacus 474706

Babylonian story of the flood on a clay tablet, probably from Sippor, Old Babylonian, 1635BC. Artist: Unknown

Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for tablet 66.245.20a: statement before witnesses ca. 20th-19th century B.C. Old Assyrian Trading Colony. Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for tablet 66.245.20a: statement before witnesses 328898

Ostrakon with a Letter from Hello to Joseph 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Hello to Joseph. Coptic. 580-640. Pottery fragment with ink inscription. Made in Thebes, Byzantine Egypt. Ceramics

Cuneiform tablet: beer rations ca. 20th-16th century B.C. Babylonian. Cuneiform tablet: beer rations 321951

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474583

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474474

Papyrus Inscribed in Greek Papyrus Inscribed in Greek, February 1 or February 2, 213-217 C.E. Papyrus, pigment, Glass: 5 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (14 x 21.5 cm). Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art February 1 or February 2, 213-217 C.E.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 9/16 x 5 5/8 in. (11.6 x 14.3 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for a loan in copper ca. 20th-19th century B.C. Old Assyrian Trading Colony. Cuneiform tablet: quittance for a loan in copper 325859

INSCRIPCION DE MARATON FRAGMENTO DEL MONUMENTO. Location: MUSEO AGORA. ATHENS. GREECE.

Cuneiform tablet: commentary on Enuma Anu Enlil, tablet 5 ca. late 1st millennium B.C.. Cuneiform tablet: commentary on Enuma Anu Enlil, tablet 5. ca. late 1st millennium B.C.. Clay. Mesopotamia

Cuneiform tablet: receipt of reeds ca. 2040 B.C. Neo-Sumerian. Cuneiform tablet: receipt of reeds 321822

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474742

Cuneiform tablet: Shumma alu, tablet 17 ca. late 1st millennium B.C.. Cuneiform tablet: Shumma alu, tablet 17 321980

Inscribed Tablet Concerning the Export of Raw Glass to Egypt 1350 B.C. El- Amarna

Tablet with Cuneiform Inscription. Anatolia, circa 1875-1840 B.C.. Tablets. Clay

Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose, ca. 1500-1480 B.C.E. Papyrus, ink, pigment, 14 x 293 in. (35.6 x 744.2 cm). Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art ca. 1500-1480 B.C.E.

Fragmentary Royal Inscription 700 B.C. Dedicated to the God Haldi. Cuneiform writing. Turkey

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474530

Ostrakon with a Letter to Cyriacus 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter to Cyriacus 474838

Fragment with Text and Vignettes; Egypt; 1200 - 1085 B.C; Papyrus and ink; 32.5 × 21.5 cm (12 13,16 × 8 7,16 in.)

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