Coptic Ostraka Artifacts

Ancient pottery fragments inscribed in Coptic, showcasing historical writing styles and dimensions, reflecting cultural heritage.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474572

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474737

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474574

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 5 1/16 x 5 1/2 in. (12.9 x 14 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 2 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (6 x 7.5 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with a Letter from Isaac. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 5 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (14.3 x 11.8 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474758

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474572

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474620

Hieratic Ostracon Dated to Year 21 of Ramesses II. Dimensions: h. 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in); w. 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 19. Reign: Reign of Ramesses II, year 21. Date: ca. 1258 B.C..Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are potsherds used as surfaces on which to write or draw. The term is used, by extension, to refer to chips of limestone, which were employed for similar purposes. Despite their humble appearances, ostraca bear a wide range of images and texts, including administrative documents, literary texts, and depictions of royal and divine figures. The texts were mostly written with reed pen and ink of two colors, red and black, and inscribed in Hieratic, the cursive script of ancient Egypt throughout most of its periods. This limestone ostracon bears on one side five incomplete lines of a hieratic note dates to year 21, most probably of the reign of Ramesses II. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 1/4 x 6 in. (10.8 x 15.3 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474518

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474500

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474589

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474569

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (6.3 x 7 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474586

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 x 5 5/16 in. (10.2 x 13.5 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474592

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall: 3 3/8 x 2 11/16 in. (8.5 x 6.9 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with a Letter from Lazarius to Epiphanius ca. 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Lazarius to Epiphanius 474855

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (12 x 13.4 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 9/16 x 4 1/8 in. (9.1 x 10.4 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474568

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474461

Ostrakon with Troparion. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 1/16 x 4 5/16 in. (7.8 x 11 cm). Date: 580-640. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with a Letter. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (9.5 x 7 cm). Date: 580-640. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with a Letter from Joseph to 580-640 Coptic OstracaOstraca 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. Some reveal that, even at the southernmost border of the Empire, people were still aware of events in the capital, Constantinople.Ostracon with a Letter from Joseph toThis sinner beyond all the world it is writeth unto his beloved lords and pious, (saying,) Be so kind and pray for me, that the Lord stablish me: for I am a friendless man, but for God; I have none other except your charity. (Pray) that God would do a kindness unto me, [for I am in great need. I desire indeed to labor a little, that the Lord may look upon my labor and may do a kindness unto me. For He giveth un

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (11.1 x 13.9 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall (attached with 12.180.224): 6 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 3 7/16 in. (16.9 x 16.5 x 8.7 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474617

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

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 5 1/8 x 3 13/16 in. (13 x 9.7 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with a Letter. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. (8.1 x 4.4 cm). Date: 580-640. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with an Invocation or Charm 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon with an Invocation or Charm 474863

Ostrakon with a Letter 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter 474807

Ostrakon with a Letter from Pesenthius to Epiphanius 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Pesenthius to Epiphanius 474784

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474713

Ostrakon with a Letter from Pesenthius to Epiphanius. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 7/16 x 3 7/8 in. (11.2 x 9.8 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 9/16 x 3 5/8 in. (9 x 9.2 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474607

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474556

Ostrakon 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon 474883

Ostrakon with a Letter 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter 474886

Ostracon Inscribed with a Prayer. Egypt, New Kingdom, 19th or 20th Dynasty (1315 - 1081 BCE). Tools and Equipment; ostraka. Limestone

Ostrakon 4th-7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 478516

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.9 x 11.7 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474469

Ostrakon with a Hymn to an Ascete and Martyr. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 4 7/16 in. (16.5 x 11.2 cm). Date: 580-640. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostracon 595-30 B.C. Late Period-Ptolemaic. Ostracon 571368

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

Ostracon 400-30 B.C. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period. Ostracon. 400-30 B.C.. Pottery, ink. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, Western Desert; Kharga Oasis, Hibis, MMA excavations, 1908-10

Ostrakon with a Letter to Epiphanius from His Mother 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter to Epiphanius from His Mother 474805

Ostracon in Three Fragments with Practice Inscriptions of a Hieratic Bird Sign on the Recto and a Hieratic Wisdom Text on the Verso

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474798

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474578

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 5 11/16 x 3 3/4 in. (14.5 x 9.5 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Small Ostracon with Greek Text. Egypt, Roman Period (332 BCE - 400CE). Tools and Equipment; ostraka. Terracotta

Report on the absence of two workmen from the gang due to scorpion bites at Deir el-Medina, 19th century

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 5/16 x 4 7/16 in. (11 x 11.3 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 5 5/16 x 4 1/2 in. (13.5 x 11.5 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with Biblical Text. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 8 x 5 11/16 in. (20.3 x 14.5 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall: 2 3/8 x 1 9/16 x 3/16 in. (6 x 4 x 0.5 cm). Date: 4th-7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 2 3/16 x 2 7/16 in. (5.5 x 6.2 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Hieratic ostracon inscribed with literary text and work journal. Dimensions: l. 27 cm (10 5/8 in); w. 16 cm (6 5/16 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 19-20. Date: ca. 1295-1070 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with a Letter from Christodorus () to Psan 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Christodorus () to Psan 474833

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474490

Ostracon ca. 1981-1640 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Ostracon. ca. 1981-1640 B.C.. Pottery, ink. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, cemetery, Pit 996, MMA excavations, 1921-22. Dynasty 12-13

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 9 7/16 x 7 11/16 in. (24 x 19.5 cm). Date: 7th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474505

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474626

Ostrakon with Fragmentary Prayer 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with Fragmentary Prayer 474770

Ostrakon with a Letter to Cyriacus. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 3 5/8 x 2 11/16 in. (9.2 x 6.8 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Demotic Temple Oath. Dimensions: H. 17 × W. 19.2 × Th. 1 cm (6 11/16 × 7 9/16 × 3/8 in.). Date: 127 BC.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. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474536

Epitafium Foteinosa, syna Lakona. unknown, author

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474565

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474580

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474829

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: Overall (a-c): 6 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 2 7/8 in. (17.5 x 19.1 x 7.3 cm)Overall (d only): 1 9/16 x 1 3/4 x 1/2 in. (3.9 x 4.5 x 1.3 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon with a Letter 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter 474864

Ostrakon with a Letter from Kame to Aaron 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter from Kame to Aaron 474734

Ostrakon koptyjski. Nieznany skryptor-kopista, author

Ostrakon 580-640 Coptic. Ostrakon 474871

Ostracon with Demotic Inscription. Egypt, early Demotic Period - Ptolemaic Period (650 - 30 BCE). Tools and Equipment; ostraka. Terracotta

Text Concerning the Rental of an Ax and the Craft Work Done with It, with Prices. Egypt, New Kingdom, late 19th Dynasty, 1250-1201 B.C., year 1 of an unknown king's reign. Tablets. Limestone

Ostrakon 4th-7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 478645

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474539

Ostracon Inscribed on Both Sides with Economic Information. Egypt, New Kingdom, end of 19th Dynasty, late in the reign of Rameses II and into (1250-1201 BCE). Tools and Equipment; ostraka. Limestone

Greek votive inscription; First years CE, before the year 14 (1-00-00-14-00-00);

Ostracon with Ramesside Hieratic Script. Egypt, New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty (1200 - 1081 BCE). Tools and Equipment; ostraka. Terracotta

Ostracon with hieratic inscription New Kingdom, Ramesside-Late Period ca. 1295-525 B.C. View more. Ostracon with hieratic inscription. ca. 1295-525 B.C.. Limestone, ink. New Kingdom, Ramesside-Late Period. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Southern Asasif, Royal Cache Valley, higher up the valley than 22.3.22, MMA excavations, 1919-20. Dynasty 19-26

Ostracon with Dimensions of a Room, Perhaps a Royal Tomb. Upper Egypt, Thebes, probably Valley of Kings, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty (1315 - 1201 BCE). Tools and Equipment; ostraka. Limestone

Ostrakon with a Letter to John and Enoch 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter to John and Enoch 474767

Ostrakon. Culture: Coptic. Dimensions: 4 7/16 x 8 1/4 in. (11.2 x 21 cm). Date: 600. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Ostrakon 7th century Coptic. Ostrakon 474492

Ostrakon with a Letter 600 Coptic. Ostrakon with a Letter 474828

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a contract ca. 626-539 B.C. Babylonian. Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a contract 322036

Fragment of an Inscribed Slab 6th-7th century. Fragment of an Inscribed Slab. 6th-7th century. Limestone; incised. Found Egypt, Saqqara. Sculpture

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Syria. Stone with inscription in the Lahish scripture. 1950. Syria

Ostrakon 600 Coptic. Ostrakon 474781

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