At 03:59 AM 12/23/2003, Peter Kirk wrote:

The roadmapped "Aramaic" script, despite being proposed for the BMP, is not a script in modern use. It is a historic script from around 2500 years ago which survives only in a few very diverse inscriptional and papyrus fragments (including those already separately roadmapped as Palmyrene etc), and in texts which have been transmitted in the slightly later variant which is called Aramaic square script or (by Unicode) Hebrew script.

It sounds as if you at least have some idea what this historic script consists of, as something obviously distinct from Palmyrene and the square script. What does it look like?


John Hudson

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