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Contains 5 Results:

Egyptian seal with hieroglyphics inscription, 1000 BCE

 Item — Box: 7
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

Etruscan bowl with inscription

 Item — Box: 7
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

Pottery vessel with unknown inscription

 Item — Box: 7
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

Petrified reed with Arabic legal inscription

 Item — Box: 7
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

Round metal item with Greek inscription inlay

 Item — Box: 7
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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