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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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Decorative Arts
Thomas GERMAIN
Inkstand bearing the arms of...
1746-47
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Decorative Arts
Adam WEISWEILER
Writing table
1784
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Decree of Kallias
Second half of fifth century BC
Athens
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Egyptian Antiquities
Scribe's palette
New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC
Theban necropolis, Egypt
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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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Egyptian Antiquities
Mummy Label
Between the second and third century AD
Akhmim?
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Egyptian Antiquities
Fragment of the Book of the Dead...
Late Period, 664-332 BC
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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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Near Eastern Antiquities
Proto-Elamite tablet with seal mark
Proto-Elamite period, circa 3100-2800 BC
Acropolis mound, Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Foundation charter of the palace...
Reign of Darius I (522-486 BC)
Susa, Iran, palace of Darius I (found under...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Letter from the king of the...
Circa 1250-1220 BC
Ras Shamra, formerly Ugarit, Syria
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Amarna letter: to the pharaoh from...
Late Bronze Age, circa 14th century BC
Amarna, Egypt
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Law Code of Hammurabi, king of...
1792–1750 BC
Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cylinders of Gudea
Circa 2100 BC
Iraq (Mesopotamia), Tello (formerly Girsu)
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Prints and Drawings
Bernardo Strozzi (Genoa, 1581-Venice, 1644)
Head and Shoulders of a Man Writing
Circa 1620
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Paintings
Hans HOLBEIN II
Erasmus
