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Egyptian hieratic inscription on linen, 1000 BCE

 Item — Box: 10
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

Medieval period Runic inscription on metal fragment

 Item — Box: 10
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.

Two Arabic fragments on linen, 16th century CE

 Item — Box: 10
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: 16th century CE

More than 60 manuscript leaves in Arabic. Religious and secular texts, 17th-19th century CE

 Item — Box: 10
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: 17th-19th century CE