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Format: 1 online resource (240 pages) : , illustrations (some color), color maps.

Series Statement: Oriental Institute Museum publications ; number 32

Content: 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.

Note: Exhibition catalog. , Foreword / , Preface / , Introduction. , Visible language : the earliest writing systems / , Cuneiform in Mesopotamia and Anatolia. , Iconography of protoliterate seals / , The earliest Mesopotamian writings / , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 1-58 -- , Adaptation of cuneiform to write Akkadian / , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 59-62 -- , The rise and fall of cuneiform script in Hittite Anatolia / , Object descriptions : catalog no. 63 -- , Egyptian writing. , The concept and development of the Egyptian writing system / , Egyptian myth of the creation of writing ; , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 64-79 -- , The earliest Egyptian writing / , Egyptian hieroglyphic writing / , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 80-82 -- , Orientation of hieroglyphs ; , Writing in Nefermaat / , The potency of writing in Egypt / , Hieratic / , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 83-84 -- , Demotic / , Object descriptions : catalog no. 85 -- , Ptolemaic hieroglyphs / , Object descriptions : catalog no. 86 -- , Coptic / , Alphabetic writing. , Invention and development of the alphabet / , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 89-94 -- , Anatolian hieroglyphs. , Anatolian hieroglyphic writing / , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 95-99 -- , China Mesoamerican hieroglyphs. , The beginnings of writing in China / , Object descriptions : catalog nos. 100-101 -- , Mesoamerican hieroglyphs. , The development of Maya writing / , Object descriptions : catalog no. 102 -- , Concordance of museum registration numbers -- , Checklist of the exhibit.

Additional Edition: Print version: Visible language. Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010 ISBN 9781885923769

Language: English

Keywords: Exhibition catalogs. ; Exhibition catalogs. ; History.