Ktav Ashuri
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Ktav Ashuri also Ashurit, is the traditional Hebrew language name of the Hebrew alphabet, used to write both Hebrew and Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. It is often referred to as Square script. The names "
Pirkei Avot in the Ashurit script, with Babylonian vocalization according to Yemenite scribal custom
Assyrian script with Tiberian vocalization
A sample of the Ashuri alphabet with tagin, written according to the Chabad scribal custom on parchment (klaf)
Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
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The Paleo-Hebrew script,, also Palaeo-Hebrew, Proto-Hebrew or Old Hebrew, is the writing system found in Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, including pre-Biblical and Biblical Hebrew, from southern C
Ktav Ashuri
…Babylonian Aramaic. It is often referred to as (the) Square script. The names "Ashuri" (Assyrian) or "square script" are used to distinguish it from the Paleo-Hebrew script. According to Halakha (Jewish religious law), tefillin (phylacteries) and mezuzot (door-post scripts) can only be written in Ashurit…
Photograph of section of the Zayit Stone, 10th century BCE: (right-to-left) the letters waw, he, het, zayin, tet (𐤅𐤄𐤇𐤆𐤈)
Paleo-Hebrew signet ring discovered in Jerusalem's City of David. City of David Archive, Eliyahu Yannai.
Gezer calendar
Drawing of the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon