Old South Arabian

Script Details

Data

Alternate Names Ancient South Arabian Monumental Script
ISO 15924 Sarb 105
Type Abjad
Family Semitic
Direction Horizontal, LtR, early forms used boustrophedon
Diacritics No
Glyphs 29
Earliest Location Mārib
Earliest Date 80 BCE
Latest Date 554 CE
Ancestry
    • Old South Arabian

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Nebes, Norbert and Peter Stein 2008 The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia, Ancient South Arabian, 145-178 Cambridge University Press
O'Connor, Michael 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Epigraphic Semitic Scripts, 89 Oxford University Press
Stein, Peter, Tobias J. Jocham, and Michael J. Marx 2016 Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Ancient South Arabian Correspondence on Wooden Sticks: New Radiocarbon Data, 263-275 Archaeopress