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Contains 2 Results:

Fragment of the Book of the Dead, hieroglyphics on papyrus, 1500 BCE

 Item — Box: 1
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: 1500 BCE
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 4671, Bruce Ferrini paleography collection

Three papyrus fragments with hieratic inscriptions, 1000 BCE

 Item — Box: 1
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

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