Dura Europos Ostraca

Date: 3rd century CE

Location: Syria

Description:
During the 8th and 9th season of the excavation at Dura Europos, some ostraca were found in street 7 and in the Palace of the Dux Ripae.

Bibliography:
– Altheim, Franz and Ruth Stiehl. Das erste Auftreten der Hunnen: das Alter der Jesaja-Rolle (1954).
– Frye, Richard. The Parthian and Middle Persian Inscription of Dura Europos. CII, Part III. (London 1968).
– Harmatta-Pékáry, Margaret. “The Decipherment of the Pārsīk Ostracon from Dura-Europos and the Problem of the Sāsānian City Organization.” In Atti del Convegno Internazionale sul tema: La Persia nel Medioevo, 467-75 (Rome, 1971).
– Henning, W. B. Gnomon 26, no. 7 (1954): 476–80. (Link)

Image	Excavation Season	Excavated Location	Field No.	Current Location	Museum No.	Size	Language	Bibliography
	Season of 1934/35	Street 7	Field No. H 615	Yale University Art Gallery	1938.5999.4613	9.5 cm. X 10.5 cm	Parthian?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVII, fig. 22; Altheim and Stiehl, 1954, 9-14, Fig. 1; Henning, 1954, 478)
	Season of 1934/35	Street 7	Field No. H 615	Yale University Art Gallery	1938.5999.3699	11 X 15 cm	Parthian?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVII, fig. 23;
	Season of 1934/35	Street 7	Field No. H 615			13.5 X 12 cm	Middle Persian	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVII, fig. 24;
	Preliminary Report IX. 3, Season of 1935/36	Palace of the Dux	Field No. I 829	Yale University Art Gallery	1938.5999.4363	23.5 X 12 cm	Parthian?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVIII, fig. 25;
	Preliminary Report IX. 3, Season of 1935/36	Palace of the Dux	Field No. I 830			21 X 16 cm	?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVIII, fig. 26;
	Preliminary Report IX. 3, Season of 1935/36	Palace of the Dux	Field No. I 827			21 X 18 cm	?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVIII, fig. 27;
	Preliminary Report IX. 3, Season of 1935/36	Palace of the Dux	Field No. I 828			15 X 13 cm	?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVIII, fig. 28;
	Season of 1935/36	The Temple of Zeus Megistos	Field No. I 826			13 X 12 cm	Parthian?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXVIII, fig. 29;
	unknown	The Temple of Tyche	Field No. Gs 305			16.7 X 11.4 cm	Parthian?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXIX, fig. 30;
	Season of 1932/33	Private House				27 X 21 cm	Parthian?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXIX, fig. 31;
	unknown	Wall Street, near the Synagogue	Field No. Gs 31o			15 X 12 cm	Parthian or Aramic?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXIX, fig. 32;
	unknown	unknown				8.5 X 7.5 cm	Parthian?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXIX, fig. 33;
	unknown	Wall Street, near the Synagogue	Field No. Gs 61			22 X 18 cm	Syriac?	(Frye, C.I.I., P. iii, V. iii, Pl. XXX, fig. 34;