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Selected Works Writing
Embark on a discovery of the origins of writing! From the first cuneiform tablets to Egyptian papyri and medieval manuscripts, this selection retraces the history of writing and techniques through the Musée du Louvre collections.
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Egyptian Antiquities
Mummy Label
Between the second and third century AD
Akhmim?
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Proto-Elamite tablet with seal mark
Proto-Elamite period, circa 3100-2800 BC
Acropolis mound, Susa, Iran
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Egyptian Antiquities
Scribe's palette
New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC
Theban necropolis, Egypt
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Egyptian Antiquities
Tablet of an apprentice scribe
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1295 BC
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Egyptian Antiquities
The Scribe Nebmerutef
New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, reign of Amenophis III...
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Egyptian Antiquities
The Seated Scribe
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty (?), c. 2620-2500 BC
Saqqara, north of the alley of the sphinxes,...
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Decorative Arts
Adam WEISWEILER
Writing table
1784
