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A chancery hand on rock.
Also known as: Parthian inscriptional script
The script used for Parthian in monumental inscriptions of the Iranian world.
Writes the Parthian language in monumental inscriptions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Keeps its letters separate where the later book hands merge them, so the monumental script is more legible than the cursive that succeeded it — the same inversion as Psalter Pahlavi against the book hand.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Aramaic-derived letters written right to left with letters kept separate, cut into rock faces and inscribed on metal.