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limestone ostracon depicting a cat, a boy, and a mouse magistrate demotic script
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limestone ostracon depicting a cat, a boy, and a mouse magistrate
Limestone ostracon with a drawing of a cat bringing a boy before a mouse magistrate,...
Courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of The University of Chicago
demotic script
Ostracon with demotic inscription, Ptolemaic dynasty, c. 304–30 BC.
David Liam Moran
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