Nsibidi
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nsibidi-177-17859328
title:
Nsibidi
text:
Nsibidi is a system of symbols or proto-writing developed by the Ekpe secret society that traversed the southeastern part of Nigeria.
They are classified as pictograms, though there have been suggestions that some are logograms or syllabograms. Use of the symbol system was first discovered in 1904. Excavation of terracotta vessels, headrests, and anthropomorphic figurines from the Calabar region of southeast Nigeria, dated to roughly the 5th to 15th centuries, revealed "an iconography readily co
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Medieval symbol system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsibidi
date created:
2006-09-04T14:44:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T06:34:31Z
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