A new appointment with the conferences organised with the association ACME-Friends and Collaborators of the Egyptian Museum, with a meeting by Clementina Caputo of the Milan Polytechnic.
When a text is affixed to a ceramic fragment, that shard becomes a document, or rather, an ostrakon.
The text cannot therefore be separated from the writing support, as together they constitute two aspects of the same object and a gesture that was intended and implemented by an individual in a specific place and at a specific time. This presupposes that those who set out to write on a shard first made a choice between the ceramic fragments they had at their disposal before placing the text on it and, for this reason, it must necessarily be contextualised in the context of the society that produced it.
The ostrakon, like any other artefact, must be considered as an instrument for archiving memory.
Reservation required.
Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, Torino