Inscribing Meaning: Sacred Scripts / National Museum of African Art
Prayer scroll Ethiopian Orthodox Ethiopia 19th century Parchment, ink Dimensions: H x W: 182.9 x 8.9 cm. Healing scrolls, rolled and worn on the body or hung beside a patient's bed, meld liturgical traditions and astrology with the mystical powers embedded within letters and numbers. Writing on healing scrolls is based on the ancient Ethiopian Ge'ez script, often in combination with "pseudo-letters" from modified Greek forms.
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