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Historical Archive: Inscriptions Arabic Aramaic, Chorasmian, Nabataean, Persian, Syriac, Uighur Chinese Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Norse Etruscan: Mars of Todi, Birth of Athena mirror Ge'ez Greek through undifferentiated 6th c. and 6th-7th c., dated within 6th c.-present; Chrismon (Christogram) Hebrew Latin through 6th c., 7th c. through c.1050, c.1050 through 13th c. , 14th c., 15th c. to present Runes Russian, Slavonic, and Serbian Cyrillic diatreta glass with Greek inscription, 3rd or 4th c., from Braunsfeld, RGM Hebrew grave stone from Cologne, 14th c., RLM seal matrix of Bishop Aethelwald, cast copper alloy, 9th c., BM 1822,1214.1 grave stone of Dietrich with Old High German inscription, c.1000, Bingen, LMM S3089