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Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy

Fischer, Henry George

(1988)

Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus

Aruz, Joan, ed., and Ronald Wallenfels, with essays by Hans J. Nissen, Donald P. Hansen, Holly Pittman, Joachim Marzahn, Karen L. Wilson, Béatrice André-Salvini, Julian Reade, Jean-Claude Margueron, Nadja Cholidis, Paolo Matthiae, Glenn M. Schwartz, Anne Porter, Thomas McClellan, Giorgio Buccellati, Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, James P. Allen, Claus Reinholdt, Eleni Drakaki, Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, Oscar White Muscarella, Elena Izbitser, Yuri Piotrovsky, D. T. Potts, Jean-François de Lapérouse, Paul Collins, Joan Aruz, Maurizio Tosi, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Elisabetta Valtz Fino, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Jean M. Evans, Béatrice André-Salvini, Piotr Michalowski, Beate Salje, and Ira Spar

(2003)

The Cloisters Apocalypse: An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile

Deuchler, Florens, Jeffrey M. Hoffeld, and Helmut Nickel

(1971)

Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume I: Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C.

Spar, Ira, ed.

(1988)

Cuneiform Texts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume IV: The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to the First Millennium B.C.

Spar, Ira and Michael Jursa

(2014)

Egyptian Studies III: Varia Nova

Fischer, Henry George

(1996)

"An Elusive Shape within the Fisted Hands of Egyptian Statues": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 10 (1975)

Fischer, Henry G.

(1975)

"The Evolution of Composite Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 12 (1977)

Fischer, Henry G.

(1977)

Gifts of Art: The Met's 150th Anniversary

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduction by Max Hollein

(2020)

"The Guarded Tablet": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 24 (1989)

Alexander, David G.

(1989)

"Islamic Calligraphy": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 50, no. 1 (Summer, 1992)

Schimmel, Annemarie, with the assistance of Barbara Rivolta

(1992)

Jade in Ancient Costa Rica

Jones, Julie, ed., with Juan Vincente Guerrero M., Mark Miller Graham, Michael J. Snarskis, and Zulay Soto Méndez

(1998)