Phoenician alphabet
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The Phoenician alphabet is an abjad that was used across the Mediterranean civilization of Phoenicia for most of the 1st millennium BC. It was one of the first alphabets, attested in Canaanite and Ara
Study of Phoenician medals, by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
Photograph of section of the Zayit Stone, 10th century BC: (right-to-left) the letters waw, he, het, zayin, tet (𐤅𐤄𐤇𐤆𐤈)
Phoenician alphabet, deciphered by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy in 1758. No.1 is from the Cippi of Melqart, No.2 is from the coins, and No. 3 is from the Pococke Kition inscriptions.
A page from the Samaritan version of Leviticus
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
Phoenician alphabet
…proper was used in Ancient Carthage until the 2nd century BC, when it was used to write the Punic language. Its direct descendant scripts include the Aramaic and Samaritan alphabets, several Alphabets of Asia Minor, and the Archaic Greek alphabets. The Phoenician alphabet proper uses 22 consonant letters—as…
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