Armenian alphabet
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The Armenian alphabet or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It was developed around 405 AD by Me
Tatev Monastery, 8th century
Armenian inscription from Yererouk Basilica, 5th century
Armenian cross from Jerusalem, 5–6th centuries
Armenian script-puzzle in Jerusalem. It is dated to the second half of the VII century
Greek alphabet
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and is the earliest known alphabetic scrip
Armenian alphabet
…the alphabets of Christian scripture. Armenian shows some similarities to both. However, the general consensus is that Armenian is modeled after the Greek alphabet, supplemented with letters from a different source or sources for Armenian sounds not found in Greek. This is suggested by the Greek order of the…
Dipylon inscription, one of the oldest preserved inscriptions in the Greek alphabet, c. 740 BC
Early Greek alphabet on pottery in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, c. 420 BC
Excerpt from the second-century Bankes Homer manuscript, already displaying a hand very much like the fourth-century biblical uncial
A 16th-century edition of the New Testament (Gospel of John), printed in the renaissance typeface Grecs du roi by Claude Garamond