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Eternal Egypt: Wrestlers' Ostracon
This ostracon depicts two soldiers, perhaps Nubians, grasping each other's necks at the beginning of a match.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon of a Monkey
This ostracon has an amusing drawing in red and black of a monkey standing on its hind legs and eating from a mound of grain.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon of a Harpist
This ostracon shows a harpist, who is a bald man, with a large and richly decorated harp, which is possibly standing.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon of a Lute Player
Depicted on this ostracon is a female musician, wearing a broad collar and holding a musical instrument that is similar to a modern lute.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon of Bull and Baboon
This ostracon depicts a bull and a baboon, executed with brush strokes in black and red pigments on a rough limestone flake.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon With Men's Figures
This ostracon shows part of the process of loading a boat. Two men are seen working with chisels. Another figure is drawn with a broad brush.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon With Running Horse
The irregular piece of stone is an educational model used to train individuals in the art of portraying a horse decorated with a collection of crosses formed by braiding.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon With Trial Sketches
This ostracon shows a cow's head with the sun disk, an ibex's head with two human hands holding a vase, and a snake's head. It also depicts a man stretching his tied hands in submission.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon of Two Bulls Fighting
In this sketch, two bulls crash horns in combat. The drawing does not convey the heat of battle between such powerful animals and the proportions of the bulls are incorrect. It was probably the work of a beginner.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon of a Cat Minding Geese
This ostracon shows a cheerful episode from an Egyptian folktale showing a cat acting as a guide and protector to a flock of six ducks or geese.
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Eternal Egypt: Ostracon With the Tale of Sinuhe
The beginning of Sinuhe's adventure tale was written on this flake of stone in Hieratic script. Sennedjem probably kept it in his tomb to read in the netherworld.