Ostracon

E8956

From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E8956
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Meroitic
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Locus G | North end of cemetery
Date Made 100 BCE-300 CE
Section Egyptian
Materials Ceramic | Ink
Inscription Language Meroitic Language
Description

Inscribed with Meroitic characters. From large vessel of buff ware with reddish surface, decorated with a pale buff line edged with purple.

Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908
Other Number Kar Ostr 2 - Other Number

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