Ostracon Depicting Ramesses IX attributed to the chief draftsman Amenhotep ca. 1126–1108 New Kingdom, Ramesside Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are potsherds used as surfaces for writing or drawing. By extension, the term is applied to chips of limestone which were employed for similar purposes. Figural ostraca vary from sketches of a single feature to polychrome painted compositions. They were used to practice drawing, draft compositions, and copy scenes. However, some ostraca were created for more durable functions, used as cult images in religious practice and deposited at tombs or shrin
Ostracon Depicting Ramesses IX attributed to the chief draftsman Amenhotep ca. 1126–1108 New Kingdom, Ramesside Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are potsherds used as surfaces for writing or drawing. By extension, the term is applied to chips of limestone which were employed for similar purposes. Figural ostraca vary from sketches of a single feature to polychrome painted compositions. They were used to practice drawing, draft compositions, and copy scenes. However, some ostraca were created for more durable functions, used as cult images in religious practice and deposited at tombs or shrines as sites of access to the divine. Ostraca on which animals appear acting as humans have been variously interpreted as playful jokes, political satire, or illustrations to fables or myths in the oral ostracon shows two examples of Ramesses IX offering to a deity, as found in royal tomb and temple contexts. On one side, he is depicted offering Maat, wearing the blue crown, uraeus, and broad collar. On the other, he wears the double feathered crown and uraeus, and offers a Ostracon Depicting Ramesses IX attributed to the chief draftsman Amenhotep. ca. 1126–1108 Limestone, ink. New Kingdom, Ramesside. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Davis excavations, 1913. Dynasty 20
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