Wine Jar Sherd with Cursive or Hieratic Script (Illustration)

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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 12 December 2015

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Wine Jar Sherd with Cursive or Hieratic Script — The hieratic script identifies the contents of the jar as wine of year 39. From Egypt; precise provenance is unknown. Late 18th Dynasty, circa 1375 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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