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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4931676, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/230/057/ad138da5-b1e6-4889-96d2-80e52cf92a4f.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/230/057/ad138da5-b1e6-4889-96d2-80e52cf92a4f.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/230/057/ad138da5-b1e6-4889-96d2-80e52cf92a4f.jpg</a></p><p>Is this your photo of the ostraka?&nbsp; In the Greek form, the person with the most votes was banished from the city for ten years.&nbsp; Of course the &#039;winners&#039; tended to go to an enemy and return later worse than ever but the idea was to get rid of the single most disruptive person that was a danger to the state.&nbsp; Politicians had to take care that there was someone else more generally hated than they were.&nbsp; I suppose, then as now, it was hard to pick just one.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon#Ostracism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon#Ostracism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon#Ostracism</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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