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An Aramaic hand from one city.
Also known as: Hatran Aramaic script
The script used at Hatra in northern Mesopotamia for its local Aramaic.
Writes the Aramaic of Hatra in monumental and votive inscriptions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Effectively a single city's hand, so the script's history begins and ends with that city's — an unusually clean case of a writing system bounded by a settlement rather than by a language or a people.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Aramaic-derived letters written right to left, known from monumental and votive inscriptions at a single site and its surroundings.