What Is Ostracon?

Lead tablets are probably the softer metals you could use but Any metal in this time period we're talking about is can be really expensive. The next material is vellum and parchment basically animal skins. Writing on bone just because the first the earliest surviving texts we have of Chinese characters are on are painted or or um carved onto bone, right right? Right. And then the last thing I want to mention about ostracon is egypt is a wash in limestone so they it was very easy to produce big flakes of that.