""'Ostraka " "'is an academic journal published semiannually from 1992 2012 by the " Istituto di studi comparati sulle societ?antiche " of the University of Perugia in Perugia, Italy.
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But recently, D . Dana basing himself on new onomastic material recorded in Egyptian ostraka suggested criteria which would make possible to distinguish between closely related Thracian and Dacian-Moesian names and singled out certain specific elements for the latter.
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There is another interpretation, however, according to which these ostraka were prepared beforehand by enterprising businessmen who offered to them for sale to citizens who could not easily inscribe the desired names for themselves or who simply wished to save time.
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In Greece, many inscriptions on vases were painted before firing, in that case often having reference to the scenes represented, or incised after firing; potsherds ( " ostraka " ) were often used as a cheap writing material.
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Power was transferred to the citizens, i . e . the ostraka bearing his name survive; one bearing the spiteful inscription : " " Cimon, son of Miltiades, and Elpinice too " " ( his haughty sister ).
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Documentary evidence-in the form of a series of limestone ostraka found at the site and published by W . C . Hayes [ 1960 ]-reveals that construction began in regnal year 43 and was probably not finished by regnal year 54 when Thutmose III died.
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"Now at the time of which I was speaking, as the voters were inscribing their ostraka, it is said that an unlettered and utterly boorish fellow handed his ostrakon to Aristides, whom he took to be one of the ordinary crowd, and asked him to write'Aristides'on it.
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Although it has sometimes been assumed that local people would resent a police presence, in fact the evidence suggests they turned to " stationarii " for protection or intervention in criminal cases, and even at times set up inscriptions in their honor . " Stationarii " are recorded in a number of varying inscriptions, and are first attested by a collection of " ostraka " dating 108 117, during the reign of Trajan.
