This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
Summary
DescriptionSaqqara ostracon.jpg
English: "In April 1925, the excavations of the Department of Antiquities at the Step Pyramid brought to light the object reproduced by a photograph in the plate, and by a tracing in figure. It is a limestone flake, apparently complete, 15 x 17.5 x 5 cm., inscribed on one face in red ink. The surface is rough, and the writer's pen has jumped over many small depressions, giving the lines and signs a broken appearance. In some places, also, small portions of the surface seem to have scaled away. There appears to be nothing in the paleographical features of the inscription, or in the contents of the latter, to conflict with the dating which is most probable on general grounds, namely to the period of Zoser (2650 BC)." Published in Annales du Service des Antiquites de L'Egypte, Volume 26, 1926, pages 197 - 202 Printed by the Institute of France, Oriental Archaeology, Le Caire, France
Date
Source
http://www.egyptorigins.org/saqqaraostracon.htm
Author
Ancient Egyptian architect
Licensing
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This Egyptian work is currently in the public domain in Egypt because its copyright has expired pursuant to the provisions of Intellectual Property Law 82 of 2002. The 2002 law, which repealed Copyright Law 354 of 1954, was not retroactive, meaning that works which had fallen into the public domain in 2002 remain out-of-copyright in Egypt (details).
In order to be hosted on Commons, all works must be in the public domain in the United States as well as in their source country. Egyptian works that are currently in the public domain in the United States are those whose copyright had expired in Egypt on the U.S. date of restoration (January 1, 1996) pursuant to the provisions of the old 1954 law which was in effect at the time.
Type of work
Copyright has expired in Egypt if...
Copyright has expired in the U.S. if...
A
Non-creative photographic or audiovisual works
published prior to 1987
published prior to 1981
B
Other works with an identifiable author
the author died prior to 1974
the author died prior to 1946 or published prior to 1929
C
Other works that are either anonymous or pseudonymous
published prior to 1974
published prior to 1946
D
Other works (e.g. collective works) whose copyright is held by a legal person
published prior to 1974
published prior to 1946
العربية ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ français ∙ 日本語 ∙ русский ∙ +/−
Certain types of Egyptian works (official documents, stamps, works of national folklore) should use specific license tags instead of this generic tag.
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
inception
10 July 2014
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time
Thumbnail
Dimensions
User
Comment
current
16:30, 10 July 2014
600 × 478 (63 KB)
Ashashyou
User created page with UploadWizard
File usage
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):