exercise? [VI-VII century]APIScolumbia.apis.963(NNC)aaa1131O.Col.inv. 963 (acc. 64.11.295)perhaps a writing exercise of some sort3 lines of writing on the front, back blankincomplete at least on the leftunderneath the text there is a wide blank spacewritten by the same "evolving" hand with two different kinds of ink, black and redReserved for publication to Cribiore and Hickey, 7/1/06in Coptic1 ostracon ; limestone ; 8 x 7.8 cm500 CE – 690 CE
from Thebes, Deir el Bahri, excavated by the Metropolitan Museum in 1926-29, Burton photo M10C 24. Formerly property of the Metropolitan Museum, sold to Columbia University in 1958
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.Englishin CopticOstracaPapyri