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title Amuletic Bowl
language Bowl ceramic
place/date Levant 3rd to 8th century
physical app. Ceramic bowl (diam. 155 mm., height 58 mm.) Ink on pottery. 8 lines and one circle have been ‘horizontally’ inscribed with virtually the same symbol/letter. Rare and highly interesting piece. price € 1450.00
content These bowls were in use to protect the user from evil forces like diseases etc. God is called on for protection. Modern pieces have been found in Morocco, but little is known about these much older amuletic bowls.Amuletic texts inscribed in this bowl should protect the user with the help of the Almighty from diseases and other evil forces. nr. braram2

author anonymous/unknown
title ARABIC PAPYRUS MS
language in Arabic, manuscript on papyrus
place/date 9th or 10th century CE
physical app. 1 folio, papyrus with a size of approximately (170x194mm). The text is written in nashk script black ink. The papyrus has changed it’s color to brown and is damaged at the border and in the middle. This part is probably a piece of a larger text. price € 450.00
content unknown, illegible. Most fragments of papyrus in arabic from this period are acts or letters or other kinds of shorter documents. Pieces of papyrus in Arabic still exist from as late as the 10th century CE. nr. msarab123

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet clay tablet
place/date
physical app. 60x35mm. Inscription on clay tablet. price € 575.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln.The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing.Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years. Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei1

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet
place/date
physical app. 60x40mm. Inscription on clay tablet. price € 975.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln. The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years.Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei2

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet
place/date
physical app. 60x42mm. Inscription on clay tablet. There is a crack running from upper-left (right) to mid-right (left). Some salt staining visible. price € 450.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln. The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years.Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei3

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet
place/date
physical app. 60x40mm. Inscription on clay tablet. There is a hole on one side, and a crack running from this hole up, then down, up again, then to the right and down again to the hole. price € 550.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln. The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years.Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei4

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet
place/date
physical app. 75x40mm. Inscription on clay tablet. One of the sides misses text, whether or not this was meant to be so, is unknown. There is a crack running on half of only that side. Script itself in good condition. price € 650.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln. The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years.Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei5

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet
place/date
physical app. 100x55mm. Inscription on clay tablet. Upper corner is missing. There is ‘text-erosion’ on one side. Thick block. price € 850.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln. The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years.Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei6

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet
place/date
physical app. 45x40mm. Inscription on clay tablet. Upper half of one side has been broken off. Minor cracks run through the tablet. Charming, little piece. price € 375.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln. The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years.Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei7

author
title [cuneiform]
language in cuneiform manuscript on tablet
place/date
physical app. 70x55mm. Inscription on clay tablet. One side carved and damaged, hard to read. Other side is readable. The tablet seems to have gotten a darker color, probably due to time and climate changes. price € 495.00
content Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, and then baked hard in a kiln. The first pictograms were drawn in vertical columns with a pen made from a sharpened reed. Then two developments made the process quicker and easier: People began to write in horizontal rows, and a new type of pen was used which was pushed into the clay, producing "wedge-shaped" signs that are known as cuneiform writing. Cuneiform was adapted by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians and Assyrians to write their own languages and was used in Mesopotamia for about 3000 years.Clay tablets were the primary media for everyday written communication and were used extensively in schools. Tablets were routinely recycled and if permanence was called for, they could be baked hard in a kiln. Many of the tablets found by archaeologists were preserved because they were baked when attacking armies burned the building in which they were kept. Clay was an ideal writing material when paired with the reed stylus writing tool. The writer would make quick impressions in the soft clay using either the wedge or pointed end of the stylus. By adjusting the relative position of the tablet to the stylus, the writer could use a single tool to make a variety of impressions. While many wedge positions are possible, awkward ones quickly fell from use in favor of those that were quickest and easiest to make. Like sloppy handwriting, badly made cuneiform signs would be illegible or misunderstood. nr. mscunei8

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