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A script read from beneath another text.
Also known as: Aluank script
The script used in the Caucasus and recovered largely from erased manuscripts.
Writes the Caucasian Albanian language of the eastern Caucasus.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Recovered chiefly from palimpsests — parchment scraped and reused, with the original text imaged by modern techniques — so most of what is known of the script was deliberately erased and then read anyway.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Fifty-two letters of curved and hooked strokes, written left to right, known chiefly from undertext beneath later writing.