Bronze Earrings with Linked Fragments of Meroitic Script
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585
$45.00
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These earrings are made of pieces of bronze patterned with samples of Meroitic text, linked with bronze wire rings and hung on hypoallergenic niobium earwires. Red bauxite and blue-green glass beads on bronze wires pick up the colors in the patina.
Meroitic script developed in the Sudan in the third century BC. It has two forms, one hieroglyphic and one cursive, developed from the Egyptian systems. British Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith deciphered the phonetic values of both forms around 1911, but other than proper names only a few dozen words have been translated, based on context.
Meroitic script developed in the Sudan in the third century BC. It has two forms, one hieroglyphic and one cursive, developed from the Egyptian systems. British Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith deciphered the phonetic values of both forms around 1911, but other than proper names only a few dozen words have been translated, based on context.