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Box 8

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Contains 3 Results:

Cuneiform tablets, 2500-2000 BCE

 Item — Box: 8
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Examples of various historical writing systems and scripts, including hieroglyphics on fragments of papyrus, reed sticks with proto-Arabian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, a bowl inscribed in Etruscan, Aramaic incantation bowls, a bronze piece with a runic inscription, Arabic on cloth fragments, decorated 13th-century Bible leaves, and other writings through the 18th century.

Dates: 2500-2000 BCE
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4671, Bruce Ferrini paleography collection

Mummy cartonnage fragment with text imbedded, 1000 BCE

 Item — Box: 8
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Examples of various historical writing systems and scripts, including hieroglyphics on fragments of papyrus, reed sticks with proto-Arabian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, a bowl inscribed in Etruscan, Aramaic incantation bowls, a bronze piece with a runic inscription, Arabic on cloth fragments, decorated 13th-century Bible leaves, and other writings through the 18th century.

Dates: 1000 BCE
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4671, Bruce Ferrini paleography collection

Three South Arabian inscribed sticks

 Item — Box: 8
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Examples of various historical writing systems and scripts, including hieroglyphics on fragments of papyrus, reed sticks with proto-Arabian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, a bowl inscribed in Etruscan, Aramaic incantation bowls, a bronze piece with a runic inscription, Arabic on cloth fragments, decorated 13th-century Bible leaves, and other writings through the 18th century.

Dates: circa 4000 B.C.-1800.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4671, Bruce Ferrini paleography collection

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