Ostracon

Description

Ostracon in limestone covered with a pale buff wash, rhomboidal shaped and inscribed on two continuous surfaces with hieratic inscription consisting of a tomb warning: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 19th - 20th Dynasty, c.1296-1069 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.316

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Ostracon

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

19th - 20th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Limestone, Ink

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• The Tomb

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Cerny, 'Oriens Antiquus' VI (1967), p 47 ff.

Potter, Daniel M. (2017) https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2017/06/23/ancient-egyptian-tomb-warnings-curses-and-ghosts/

Murray, Margaret A. (1899) Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, PSAS 33, p.514

Peet 1.159. Checklist of transcribed hieratic documents in the archive of the Griffith Institute, (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4hipee.html)

Gardiner 52.6–8; MSS.31.78.3–6. Checklist of transcribed hieratic documents in the archive of the Griffith Institute, (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4higaros.html)

Potter, D. M. 'National Museums Scotland: New Kingdom Hieratic Texts in Edinburgh', in A. Fanciulli, K. Gabler, M. Landrino, M. Müller, R. Pietri, St. Polis, N. Sojic, S. Töpfer & St. Unter (eds.), New Kingdom Hieratic Collections around the World. Part 1, Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023 (= Aegyptiaca Leodiensia 13.1).

Danesi, Marcel. (2022) Warning Signs: The Semiotics of Danger, pp.65-66

On display

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world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered