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Definition of Ostraka
1. ostrakon [n] - See also: ostrakon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostraka
Literary usage of Ostraka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Some of the texte not yet deciphered include several Nubian ostraka in a language
spoken ... As to contents, ostraka are either profane or ecclesiastical. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1885)
"At all events, the ostraka found in particular houses or particular parts of ...
Dr. Wiedemann and myself secured a considerable number of the ostraka from ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1901)
"GREEK ostraka FROM EGYPT. PROF. AH SAYCE (President). To the list of places in
Egypt in which ostraka are found must now be added El-Kab, where I picked up ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The ecclesiastical ostraka, in a narrow sense, contain Biblical citations from
... Particularly remarkable are those ostraka which contain liturgical songs. ..."
5. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"Somo Greek ostraka found at Elephantine. 29e dynastie à Karnak. Proceedings of
the Society of Biblical ..."
6. Studies in Attic Epigraphy, History, and Topography by Eugene Vanderpool (1982)
"WRITING AND SPELLING ON ostraka HE ostraka found in the American ... With the
ostraka found in the Agora we are dealing with material that can be roughly ..."
7. Proceedings by Bruce A. Suprenant, James L. Noland, M.P. Schuller, University of Colorado (1901)
"GREEK ostraka FROM EGYPT. PROF. AH SAYCE (President). To the list of places in
Egypt in which ostraka are found must now be added El-Kab, where I picked up ..."
8. Three Years in the Libyan Desert: Travels, Discoveries, and Excavations of by J. C. Ewald Falls (1913)
"He entitled it " ostraka." The term means the inscribed tablets, generally of
clay, which are found in the mounds of ruins in the Nile valley, ..."
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