Aramaic script

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Noun1.Aramaic script - an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic languageAramaic script - an alphabetical (or perhaps syllabic) script used since the 9th century BC to write the Aramaic language; many other scripts were subsequently derived from it
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script - a particular orthography or writing system
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Across the Levant, and into the modern-day countries of Iraq and Iran, archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ceramic objects that they refer to as "demon bowls." Also known as "incantation bowls," these handheld, shallow, earthenware pots are decorated with an elaborate, delicate Aramaic script circling around their rims, oftentimes with an illustration of a demon at their center.
Jewish Horror
Script of Elimayi coins at the beginning, was Greek, but was changed to Aramaic script in later periods.
Investigating the aesthetic characteristics of inscriptions on the patriarch and safavid coins
The parchment and papyrus scrolls contain Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic script, and include several of the earliest-known texts from the Bible, including the oldest surviving copy of the Ten Commandments.
Worldbriefs
A language could be and often was written down in a different script that the spoken word, as in the case of Arabic, written in northern Arabia and southern Syria in Nabataean Aramaic script which gradually developed into Arabic script or in Egypt in Coptic signs.
From Hellenism to Islam, Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East
The 10-line Aramaic script, which is clear but cryptic, is being deciphered by a team of epigraphic experts in an effort to determine the meaning of the text, according to Professor Shimon Gibson, of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who is co-directing the excavation.
Unique Aramaic inscription from first century found in Jerusalem
According to Cameron, names in the ancient Aramaic script on some of the caskets translate as "Jesus son of Joseph", "Maria", "Joseph",
Is THIS the tomb of Jesus? FILM SPARKS FURY
Last October, scholars defending the box's authenticity argued the Aramaic script used on the box matches the style that was popular in the first decades of the first century after the birth of Jesus.
Israeli archeologists call ossuary writing fake: link to Jesus' brother James is forgery, they say, but other experts call finding premature. (World)
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