Parchment Production in the First Millennium BC at Seglamen, Northern Ethiopia |
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Authors: | Laurel Phillipson |
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Institution: | 1. Threshfield, North Yorkshire, UK
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Abstract: | Traditional Ethiopian and European processes of parchment manufacture and their associated tools are described and compared with artefacts recovered from an important pre-Aksumite site at Seglamen, in the highlands of northern Ethiopia. Many close similarities of tools used at Seglamen in both the earlier and later phases of the pre-Aksumite, from about 800 BC, to implements used by present-day Ethiopian scribes attest to the systematic production of parchment at Seglamen and to cultural continuity over a period of almost three millennia. |
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