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Monumental letters of severe geometry.
Also known as: Old South Arabian script
The script used for the Old South Arabian languages in the kingdoms of Yemen.
Writes Sabaean and the related Old South Arabian languages in monumental inscriptions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Cut with a regularity that makes its inscriptions look typeset, and that regularity is why it is legible after two and a half thousand years where more cursive contemporaries are not.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Tall narrow letters of straight lines and precise curves, spaced evenly, written boustrophedon in earlier inscriptions and right to left later.