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12 out of more than 190 Ostraka (singular ostrakon, ὄστρακον, ὀστράκου, τό), mostly made from the bases of drinking cups, bearing the name of Themistokles son of Neokles, the famed Athenian general and politician during the era of the Persian Wars of the early 5th century. Ostraka were used in voting on an ostracism, or ten-year exile from the city, a sentence used against public figures. Themistokles had a highly successful military career, but despite this, he was successfully ostracized in 472/1 BC.
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Date
472 BC
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ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣΝΕΟΚΛΕΟΣ
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Athens, Greece
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Bibliography
Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 82, fig. 78.
Birth of Democracy (1993), p. 104, pls. 15.2-13.