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orion red ink on MSS

Tangential to DSS, but perhaps interesting to those who're looking at red 
ink (and not cited in the Nir-El and Broshi article in Archaeometery 38):

         Author..... Robertson, Anne F.
         Title...... Word Dividers, Spot Markers and Clause Markers in
                     Old Assyrian, Ugaritic, and Egyptian Texts:  Sources
                     for Understanding the Use of the Red Ink Points in
                     the Two Akkadian Literary Texts, Adapa and Ereshkigal,
                     Found in Egypt
         Subtitle... A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of
                     the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy,
                     Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
         Place...... New York
         Publisher.. New York University
         Date....... November 1993
         Collation.. 1 volume (xviii + 452 pages including 7 illustrations)
         Notes...... University Microfilms Order No. 9422934; Supervised
                     by Baruch Levine

The author of that dissertation also has a Web site dealing with the 
subject, including an illustration of one of the hieratic texts with red 
ink marking system.
http://soho.ios.com/~arobe/grphterm.html


-Chuck Jones-
cejo@midway.uchicago.edu