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Definition of Ostracon
1. Noun. A piece of pottery or stone, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ostracon
1. a fragment containing an inscription [n -CA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostracon
Literary usage of Ostracon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1908)
"A COPTIC ostracon. BY WE CRUM. This ostracon (which is published at the request
of the ... The ostracon should date from about the year 600. Recto. ..."
2. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1908)
"A COPTIC ostracon. BY WE CRCM. This ostracon (which is published at the request
of the Secretary ... The ostracon should date from about the year 600. Redo. ..."
3. Annals of Medical History by Francis Randolph Packard (1921)
"A few years ago the Journal of the American Medical Association called attention
to this ostracon in an editorial entitled "The Oldest Prescription in ..."
4. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1904)
"4 Possibly 0»p/iov; after which the ostracon has V") II. AD 22O. fOT. 8.5X8. ...
993, an ostracon of the same month and year. HAYNES OSTRACA. i. AD 95. cm. ..."
5. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to by James Henry Breasted (1906)
"The beginning, lacking in the Berlin Papyrus, is preserved in a hieratic ostracon (a
large flake of limestone) discovered in a Twentieth Dynasty tomb by ..."
6. Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book by Marshall Clagett (1989)
""The scribe of the ostracon then referred these auxiliaries to 21, finding that
3 1/2 is 1/6 of 21, 1 1/2 is 1/14 of 21, and 1 is 1/21 of 21, ..."
7. Revenue Laws of Ptolemy Philadelphus by Ptolemy, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, John Pentland Mahaffy (1896)
"My explanation is somewhat confirmed by a comparison of PP xlvi with a second
century BC ostracon, cf. note on [37] 19. In the papyrus a surety has to pay l ..."
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