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To: SunkenCiv
"Most people wrote their correspondence on ostraca (broken pieces of pottery)"

Those same pottery shards were used to cast votes to exclude undesirables from a community, and is from whence we get the word, "ostracize."

24 posted on 08/18/2018 1:26:53 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

That was an odd, and anti-democratic, and rather stupid practice in Athens. There was just a subthread discussion about it the other day, danged if I can find it. So, instead, an ostraca-related topic from yesteryear:

Trash Talk [ Monte Testaccio, imperial Roman landfill ]
Archaeology, Volume 62 Number 2 | March/April 2009 | Jarrett A. Lobell
Posted on 5/5/2012 11:34:47 PM by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2880425/posts


34 posted on 08/19/2018 2:38:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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