Frag. Of Pottery/Ostraca
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Apr 1908
name: label: Collector
content: Frederick B. Kilmer
label: Donor Name
content: Frederick B. Kilmer
label: Site Name
content: Edfu (not certain)
notes: label: Notes
content: Definitely Coptic however, in addition to the Greek letters, its shows the Egyptian shin sign.
label: Notes
content: Coptic ostracon (not Greek). There are too few words present to translate anything. Definitely Coptic, however, in addition to the Greek letters, it shows the Egyptian shin sign. Dr. Betsy M. Bryan, Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University saw no names or amounts, though it is presumably a business record of some kind. Orientation: point is down.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Possibly Edfu. Inscribed in hieratic; list of persons; date: c. 2000 B.C. (?) Examined 1/23/53 by Georges Posener, Directeur d'Etudes a l'Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes and identified as above. Exhibit, Hall 26, 1976."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Upper Egypt (not certain), Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 048604
label: USNM Number
content: A250390-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ostracon