Imperial Aramaic

Script Details

Imperial Aramaic

A Tayma Stone, a stele dedicated to the god Salam, 5th c. BC

By Unknown artist - Jastrow (2007), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1527801

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Fertile_Crescent.png Inspired by map "Fertile Crescent" by SĂ©mhur licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Data

Alternate Names Aramaic alphabet
ISO 15924 Armi 124
Type Abjad
Family Egyptian
Direction RtL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 22
Earliest Location Egypt
Earliest Date 1000 BCE
Latest Date 250 BCE
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Creason, Stuart 2008 The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, Aramaic, 108-144 Cambridge University Press
O'Connor, Michael 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Epigraphic Semitic Scripts, 89 and 96-98 Oxford University Press