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Graffiti across a desert.
Also known as: Safaitic script, Ancient North Arabian
The script used across northern Arabia in a family of related alphabets, surviving mainly as rock graffiti.
Writes the Old North Arabian languages, chiefly in rock inscriptions across the northern Arabian desert.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Written in whatever direction the rock allowed, including spirals, so reading direction is determined per inscription from the letterforms rather than assumed — the surface dictated the layout and the script accommodated it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular letters of straight strokes cut into rock, written in almost any direction including spirals and boustrophedon.