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The Sasanian hand on rock.
Also known as: Sasanian Pahlavi
The script used for Middle Persian in the monumental inscriptions of the Sasanian empire.
Writes Middle Persian in Sasanian monumental inscriptions and on coinage.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Separates letters the later book hand merges, so the three Pahlavi scripts recorded across this sprint form a sequence in which legibility falls steadily as the writing becomes faster — a trade-off visible across four centuries.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Aramaic-derived letters written right to left and kept largely separate, cut into rock faces and struck on coins.