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Greek Ostrakon Grain Tax Payment

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Broken pottery used for writing tax receipt for grains.

About the Model

Ostrakon are pieces of broken pottery vessels. They were used for writing a variety of different texts, instead of using expensive papyrus. There is a tax receipt written on this broken pottery piece. Medium: Silt from the Nile

Category

Arts + Humanities

Keywords

grain, tax, broken, pottery, clay, earthenware, silt, Nile, Egypt, Egyptian, Greek, Greek history, handwriting, vessel, papyrus, money, ancient egyptians, ancient egypt, Ancient Greek Civilization, social studies, language, archaeology, orange

Updated

May 26 2022

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