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| 11 | 578 | A View more quotes about number">number, the same number, was written at the bottom and top of each item. |
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| 11 | 575 | When a fellow had paid his tarsk bit Mirus would reach into the copper bowl carried by Tula and draw forth from it one of the small, about three inches long and an inch wide, thin, flat, brittle, glazed, baked-clay ostraka. |
| 11 | 576 | They were oval and, along the long axis, slotted. |
| 11 | 577 | The ostraka are lovely and fragile. |
| 11 | 578 | A number, the same number, was written at the bottom and top of each item. |
| 11 | 579 | I winced as Mirus snapped one of the ostraka in two, giving half to the purchaser and throwing the other half into Aynur's bowl. |
| 11 | 580 | "Good luck!" he said. |
| 11 | 581 | "What is her name?" called a man. |