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Marea2011
EGYPT
SETOFOSTRAKAFROMNEARBUILDINGSH01
Tesetofostrakadiscoveredoutside
rooms26and28ofbuildingSH01
counted264sherds.Ofthese164are
relativelylegible,whereastherestcontains
singlewordsorletters.Tesetisbeing
studiedbyTomaszDerdafromthe
Department
of
Papyrology
of
the
InstituteofArchaeologyoftheUniversity
ofWarsawanditisonhisnotesthatthe
presentremarksarebased.Restorershave
alreadymanagedtoputtogethersome
ofthebrokenostraka;thebiggesttexts
aremadeupoffiveorsixfragmentswith
separateinventorynumbers.Furtherwork
onthesetshouldrevealmorejoins.Allthe
sherdsweredocumentedwithadigital
cameraandininfrared.Tedeposition
conditionsinthispartoftheareaare
extremelyhumid,beingjust15mfrom
thelake.Teinkinsuchconditionsis
mostlyfaded.Infraredphotographyhas
beenhelpfulindecipheringpartsthat
haveotherwisebeendegradedbeyond
legibility.
Teostrakaappeartohavebeen
discardedwhenthenotesrecordedon
themwerenolongerneeded.Teywere
writtenforthemostpartinonehand,by
somebodywritingwithease,although
itwasnotmuchofacursiveform.Te
scribeusedacertainnumberofligatures
andabbreviations.Tewritingisdifcult
todate.Basedonpaleographiccriteria,
itcanbeassignedtothe5thcenturyas
muchastothe6th.
Tedocumentsfollowasimple
model:eachitembeginswiththetask
tobedone,whichoccupiesthefirst
Fig.7.Palimpsestostrakonaferrecomposition(MA01/2011):threeviews,fomlef,standard
photographybeforeconservation,aferconservationandininfared(PhotoJ.Babraj)
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