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Partially excavated places tagged “ostraca”

2 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Bu Njem (Gholaia)

Severan Roman (201–259 CE) · Roman

201 CE polygonal limes fort 138 m with 146 wax tablets and ostraca archive documenting Legio III vicus.

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🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city

Samaria

Iron Age capital to Crusader · Israelite → Assyrian → Herodian

Hilltop capital of Kingdom of Israel after 880 BCE (Omri bought hill from Shemer for 2 talents silver — 1 Kings 16:24) with Israelite palatial ivories (Samaria Ivories, Louvre) and Ostraca warehoused…