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单词 Ostraka
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Ostraka

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Ostracon

Ostrakon of Cimon, an Athenian statesman, showing his name (as
Ostrakon of Megacles, son of Hippocrates (inscription: ΜΕΓΑΚΛΕΣ ΗΙΠΠΟΚΡΑΤΟΣ), 487 BC. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus
Voting ostraca (for ostracism, Ancient Greece)
One of four official letters to vizier Khay copied onto a limestone ostracon, in Egyptian Hieratic

An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery (or stone), usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. In archaeology, ostraca may contain scratched-in words or other forms of writing which may give clues as to the time when the piece was in use.

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