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BL
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1041825
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b796195
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| Title & Author
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Visible language : : inventions of writing in the ancient Middle East and beyond /\ edited by Christopher Woods with the assistance of Geoff Emberling Emily Teeter.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago, Ill. :: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,, 2010.
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| Series Statement
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Oriental Institute Museum publications ;; no. 32
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240 pages :: illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;; 30 cm.
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| ISBN
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1885923767
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: 9781885923769
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| Notes
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Exhibition catalog held at the Oriental Institute of Chicago.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Abstract
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This unique exhibit is the result of collaborative efforts of more than twenty authors and loans from five museums. It focuses on the independent invention of writing in at least four different places in the Old world and Mesoamerica with the earliest texts of Uruk, Mesopotamia (5,300 BC) shown in the United States for the first time. Visitors to the exhibit and readers of this catalog can see and compare the parallel pathways by which writing came into being and was used by the earliest kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Maya world.
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Cuneiform writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Egyptian language-- Writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Picture-writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Writing-- Middle East-- History, Exhibitions.
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Cuneiform writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Cuneiform writing.
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Egyptian language-- Writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Egyptian language-- Writing.
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Picture-writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Picture-writing.
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Writing-- History, Exhibitions.
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Writing-- China-- History.
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Writing-- Middle East-- History, Exhibitions.
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Writing.
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Writings-- Central America-- History, Exhibitions.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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411/.7
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| LC Classification
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P211.3.M628V57 2010
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| Added Entry
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Emberling, Geoff.
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Teeter, Emily.
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Woods, Christopher,1968-
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University of Chicago., Oriental Institute.
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