Aramaic alphabet
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The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken by ancient Aramean pre-Christian peoples throughout the Fertile Crescent. It was also adopted by other peoples as their own
Aramaic inscription from Tayma, containing a dedicatory inscription to the god Salm
The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, a Greek and Aramaic inscription by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka at Kandahar, Afghanistan, 3rd century BC
Aramaic inscription of Taxila, Pakistan probably by the emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE
Hebrew alphabet
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The Hebrew alphabet or aleph-bet, known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language
Aramaic alphabet
…and started using the Aramaic alphabet, which they call "Ktav Ashuri", even for writing Hebrew, displacing the former Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. The modern Hebrew alphabet derives from the Aramaic alphabet, in contrast to the modern Samaritan alphabet, which derives from Paleo-Hebrew. The letters in the Aramaic alphabet…
The Aleppo Codex, a tenth-century Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. Book of Joshua 1:1
14th century tarsh blockprint from the Cairo Geniza; quoting Deuteronomy 28:6, likely intended to be hung on a doorway or as a welcome placard.
The lower clock on the Jewish Town Hall building in Prague, with Hebrew numerals in counterclockwise order.
The four-pronged Shin