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Anthropologist. Archaeologist.
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Here is the MOLA entry on the Met's Gold Coffin of Nedjemankh, which was attributed to Behrens mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...
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It’s always better when it’s tighter.
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One can see here for example the evolution of the Sumerogram for 'king' 𒈗
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This clay tablet from Babylon is ancient to us, and the inscription that the scribe copied must have seemed just as ancient to him.
An artefact within an artefact.
Two languages and script styles side by side, and a scribe doing history in a sense circa 600 BCE.
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Cuneiform gets more streamlined or stylised in later eras.
In the bottom part of this tablet, Balāṭa “signs” the copy and gives a date equivalent to December 3, 603 BCE during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II.
He uses the contemporary cuneiform “font” (and Akkadian language)
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The top part of this tablet is an inscription in the Sumerian language, dead for centuries by the time Balāṭa the junior scribe made this copy of it.
The signs are larger here and reflect an older “font”. Was he copying from an original that was over 1,000 years old to him?