Figured Ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt: Iconography and Intent
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The aim of the study is to examine a particular set of images found only on ostraca from New Kingdom Egypt. These scenes show women, often with a child, sitting on a bed in a domestic environment; alternatively, they depict women with a child in a kiosk, in an outdoor setting. The purpose of this research is to examine why these images were drawn and to explore what these representations meant to their creators and viewers. The functionality of the ostraca will also be analysed, considering if they were objects in their own right or merely practice pieces for larger scale compositions.
Ostraca de Krokodilô. la correspondance privée et les réseaux personnels de Philoklès, Apollôs et...
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"The fort of Krokodilo on the road from Coptos to Myos Hormos was excavated in 1996-97 by the French mission in the Eastern desert. Its rubbish-dump was formed during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, and produced over 800 ostraca, 189 of which are published in this volume. While the first volume of Ostraca de Krokodilô concerns military correspondence, this second volume contains private letters exchanged between the inhabitants of Krokodilo and the neighbouring forts, Phoinikon and Persou. The letters were written by three very different characters: Philokles, a green-grocer and pimp, plays a central role in supplying vegetables to the inhabitants of the desert forts and also organises the prostitution; Ischyras, a quarry-man, is an acquaintance of Philokles and his letters are full of declarations of friendship, but also contain some harsh remarks which demonstrate the brutality of certain human relationships; Apollos is probably a soldier, but also functions as a letter-writer for a group of people who are mostly concerned with their provisions of food. This rich corpus gives us a glimpse of the daily life in a society of some 200 people who lived in the desert garrisons at the beginning of the 2nd century AD, and who appear in the ostraca. We are able to witness the importance of solidarity in this hostile environment and the important role of civilians, not least the women, in the life around the forts."--Back cover.
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288 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm. :
9782724707359
Ostraca Varia: Unpublished Deir el-Medina Ramesside Administrative Ostraca from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford /
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The following article presents a small but varied group of unpublished Deir el-Medina nonliterary ostraca, dating to the Ramesside period, comprising an assortment of documentary types that spans both the collective and individual spheres of the community’s administration. Ashmolean HO 766 describes a domestic incident, and is identifiable as a s?3.w text from the lego-judicial category, while Ashmolean HO 821, an accounting document provides fresh insights into the work and deliveries of the smd.t water-carriers of the community, and Ashmolean HO 969, a fragmentary yet chronologically significant “journal-of-the-necropolis” text offers additional data on the accession date of Ramesses VI.