Esther Eshel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem says the ostracon is a legal document recording the surrender of a new member's personal property to the Qumran commune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qumran Controversy] Reference

Every one taking an ostracon, that is, a sherd, a piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen's he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference

Doug Mangum gives an update on the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon inscription.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knowledge Resources Online] Reference

That's an easy conclusion to reach given the more certain readings of the ostracon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linguistics and the Dating of Texts] Reference

The next line reads, "In Jericho," most likely indicating where the ostracon was made.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Texts from Qumran] Reference

One ostracon, broken into two pieces, mentions several commodities and is believed to be a list of food and supplies.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Texts from Qumran] Reference

I just saw on the Biblicalist list-serv that the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon chronicle has been updated with new information and pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khirbet Qeiyafa Website Updated] Reference

While Christianity Today does a good job of reporting on the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon, Fox news offers viewers no understanding of the nature of the find, the uncertainty about how the fragmentary text should be translated, or anything else that might be called accurate, nuanced reporting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reconstructing Tenth-Century Hebrew Morality] Reference

Another source is the ostracon previously discussed.    From Wordnik.com.  [BiblePlaces Blog] Reference

The ostracon found at the valley of Elah: dated to the tenth century B.C.E.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

There are many websites and blogs discussing all manner of interesting things about the Qeiyafa ostracon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet RMFO Blog] Reference

The ostracon was found lying on the floor inside a building near the city gate of the site, known as the Elah Fortress at Khirbet Qeiyafa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Ever since man first scratched hieroglyphics upon an ostracon, or scribbled with sepia upon papyrus, he must have wondered, as we wonder to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference

However, I would like to point you to an article (available as a PDF for download here) which details the science behind the imaging of the ostracon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet RMFO Blog] Reference

The ostracon comprises five lines of text divided by black lines, and was found at excavations of a 10th century B.C.E. fortress - the oldest known Judaic city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Interpretation of an ostracon found at Qumran (see "New Texts from Qumran," ARCHAEOLOGY, May/June 1996) that may refer to a community there was at the center of the dispute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qumran Controversy] Reference

Carbon dating of the ostracon, along with pottery analysis, dates the inscription to time of King David, about a millennium earlier than the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, the university said.    From Wordnik.com.  [KSAT.com - Local News] Reference

Because the ostracon is similar to that found in other Israelite settlements, and because no pig bones were found at the site, archaeologists say the site was likely part of the Kingdom of Judea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Internet Press] Reference

Every one taking an ostracon, a sherd, that is, or piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen’s name he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristides] Reference

In the east gate, at a height of 3 feet above the stone pavement, there was a layer of potsherds, painted with a rough decoration of comma-shaped dashes, and with them were some fragments of an ostracon written in late demotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [El Kab] Reference

The early Hebrew ostracon, Judean pottery similar to that found at other Israelite settlements, and the absence of pig bones among the animal bones found at the site all point to this fortress being a city of the Kingdom of Judea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Carbon-14 dating of organic material found with the ostracon, administered by Oxford University, along with pottery analysis dates this inscription to the time of King David ca. 3,000 years ago - predating the Dead Sea Scrolls by approximately a millennium, and placing it earlier than the famed Gezer Calendar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

One of them drew a caricature of their love affair in an ostracon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Nico was in the store seeking an artifact the ostracon that he believed she had that will free him and his equally cursed friend were-leopard Andreas; he explains they own nearby trendy Andre’s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Temptations-Allyson James « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference

Every one taking an ostracon, a sherd, that is, or piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen’s name he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

The last ostracon shows traces of ink.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Texts from Qumran] Reference

Every scrap of papyrus and every ostracon.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome] Reference

Elah ostracon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference