Carpentras Stele
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The Carpentras Stele is an Egyptian stele now in Carpentras in southern France. It is the first inscription written in the Phoenician alphabet to have been published, and was identified a century late
The inscription in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
The stele as published in 1704.
Carpentras Stela, in CIS II 141 (inscription close up)
Aramaic
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Aramaic is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Eastern A
Carpentras Stele
…in southern France. It is the first inscription written in the Phoenician alphabet to have been published, and was identified a century later as Aramaic. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, in a "dark corner" on the first floor. Older Aramaic texts have been found dating from as early as the…
This clay tablet represents a classroom experiment; a teacher imposed a challenging writing exercise on pupils who spoke both Babylonian-Akkadian and Aramaic. The pupils had to use traditional syllabic signs to express the sounds of the Aramaic alphabet. c. 500 BC. From Iraq
One of the Bar-Rakib inscriptions from Sam'al. The inscription is in the Samalian language (also considered a dialect).
The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription (Greek and Aramaic) by the Indian king Ashoka, 3rd century BC at Kandahar, Afghanistan