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The earlier hand of the Silk Road.
Also known as: Early Sogdian script
The script the earlier form of the Sogdian script, before its letters joined and rotated.
Writes Sogdian in an earlier and less cursive hand than the script that succeeded it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Preserves letter distinctions the later cursive merged, so reading the Silk Road documents requires knowing which stage of the script a text belongs to before any word is attempted.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Aramaic-derived letters written right to left and largely unjoined, in a hand closer to its Aramaic parent than the later cursive.
The later joined and rotated Sogdian hand descends from this earlier separated one.