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Also known as: Palmyrene Aramaic script
The script used at Palmyra for its Aramaic dialect, in a distinctive monumental and cursive pair.
Writes the Palmyrene dialect of Aramaic in monumental and cursive hands.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Its bilingual inscriptions with Greek made it the first Semitic script of the Roman period to be deciphered in the modern era, and that decipherment supplied the method later applied to Phoenician.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Aramaic-derived letters in a squared monumental form and a rounder cursive one, written right to left.