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Image credits
Every photograph or facsimile used here has a source record and file-specific rights. Cropping and shading affect only the presentation. Images may illustrate a language without being a witness used in a lesson.
The Sanskrit illustration was created for Sanskrit Help. The Indo-European and Proto-Indo-European panels are original abstract artwork. None is presented as a historical witness.
Study-site imagery
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Aleppo Codex, Joshua 1:1
aleppocodex.org via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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Attic decree fragment, The Met 26.60.8
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
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Roman Forum
Davide Lussetti · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Old Assyrian letter, The Met 66.245.1
Zeray Peter / The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
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Field-dimension tablet from Tello, A31736
Daderot · CC0
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Stela of Mentuwoser, The Met 12.184
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
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Life of Shenoute papyrus, British Museum EA71005/6
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Baal-cycle tablet fragments, Louvre AO 16641–16642
Mbzt · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Pyrgi tablets
Macalla · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Linear A tablet from Hagia Triada
Zde · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Eshmunazar II sarcophagus inscription, Louvre AO 4806
Matthew Suriano · CC0
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Indus stamp seal and modern impression, The Met 49.40.1
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0
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Palenque Palace and Temple of the Inscriptions
Candiderm · Public domain
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Yasna manuscript, fol. 4r, Columbia X892.5 Av3 N22
Columbia University digitization · CC0
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Persepolis panorama
Ondřej Žváček · CC BY 2.5
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Hittite bronze treaty detail
Dick Osseman · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ahiqar papyrus from Elephantine
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ephrem’s Commentary on the Diatessaron, CBL Syc 709
Chester Beatty via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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Rock-carved tombs at Kaunos
Rev Stan · CC BY 2.0
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Hattuša panorama; regional context
Balkanique · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Subashi ruins near Kucha; regional context
Scott Newman · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Chogha Zanbil; regional context
Pentocelo · CC BY-SA 3.0
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PY Ub 1318 tablet from Pylos
Sharon Mollerus · CC BY 2.0
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Additional subject imagery
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Folio from a Koran (8th-9th century).jpg
Unknown in Abbasid dynasty · Public domain
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Silver Gospels, Opening of Matthew's Gospel, Walters Manuscript W.542, fol. 15r.jpg
Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts · CC0
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Mesha Stele (511142469).jpg
Henri Sivonen from Helsinki, Finland · CC BY 2.0
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Emlagh East Ogham Stone, County Kerry, Ireland 09.jpg
Ridiculopathy · CC0
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Oracle bone from the Couling-Chalfant collection.jpg
anonymous · CC0
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Ethiopic genesis (ch. 29, v. 11-16), 15th century (The S.S. Teacher's Edition-The Holy Bible - Plate XII, 1).jpg
Creator not identified in the Commons file record · Public domain
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JellingeStoneLargeInscription.JPG
Boeing720 · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Codex Argenteus.jpg
Creator not identified in the Commons file record · Public domain
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Tavola di Agnone 2.jpg
Pimpinellus · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Stone Stele with Meroitic Script (36571213426).jpg
Gary Todd · CC0
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Codex Suprasliensis (5859342).jpg
Retko · Public domain
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Beowulf Cotton MS Vitellius A XV f. 132r.jpg
anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet · Public domain
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Book of Leinster Facsimilepage55.jpg
Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain
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Kultigin Monument of Orkhon Inscriptions.jpeg
Vezirtonyukuk · CC BY-SA 4.0
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0121421 Brahmi script Prakrit language 3rd-century BCE, Ashoka Minor Rock Edict, Gujarra Madhya Pradesh 05.jpg
Ms Sarah Welch · CC0
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Slab, building inscription, ancient South Arabian script, dedicated to god Talab. From Yemen, 3rd century CE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul.jpg
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Tibetan 6 Wellcome L0070602.jpg
Creator not identified in the Commons file record · CC BY 4.0
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