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Tagsostraca
4 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Severan Roman (201–259 CE) · Roman
201 CE polygonal limes fort 138 m with 146 wax tablets and ostraca archive documenting Legio III vicus.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze II to Iron II / Persian (c.3000–400 BCE; EB peak 2950–2650, Iron 1000–587) · EB Canaanite → absent MB → Israelite Judahite → Babylonian era → Persian
Double-stacked tell: 2950 BCE walled EB city plus Iron Age Judahite fortress-temple twin of Jerusalem.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
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…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
New Kingdom to Ptolemaic (c.1550–1080 BCE active; village founded by Thutmose I) · Egyptian New Kingdom (workmen community)
Walled village of skilled artisans who built and decorated royal tombs of Valley of the Kings and Queens (1550–1080 BCE).
