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Wanna-be Aramaic?!?!
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nashama Wrote:Hi Paul:
As intrigued as I am by your chart, where is the evidence that the Estrangelo Script dates to 100 B.C. or earlier? The earliest evidence that I have seen of anything remotely resembling Estrangelo is an inscription dated from 6 B.C. on an Edessan palace gate.

Regards,
Stephen Silver.

Shlama Akhi Stephen,

I'm glad you're intrigued, but "remotely resembling"? Don't you think that statement is a little overboard? <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: --> I see, at most, 3 or 4 characters that are slightly different on the inscription vs. the later script. It's certainly a lot closer to the modern Estrangelo than the Hebrew Square script is to the Dead Sea Scroll script!

Here is a picture of the inscription (from 6 A.D.):

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The ~100 B.C. date I gave for the origin of the script is just an estimation (hence the ~ symbol.)

Considering that this script was used for the tomb of none other than the governor of Birta himself who died in 6 A.D., what date would you give for the origin of the script?
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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Wanna-be Aramaic?!?! - by SkammyManX - 03-25-2004, 01:06 AM
Re: Wanna-be Aramaic?!?! - by abudar2000 - 03-25-2004, 02:13 AM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 03-25-2004, 03:42 AM
ESTRANGELO 100 B.C.? - by nashama - 03-25-2004, 03:11 PM
[No subject] - by Gentile - 03-25-2004, 03:12 PM
[No subject] - by SkammyManX - 03-25-2004, 03:31 PM
[No subject] - by abudar2000 - 03-25-2004, 03:45 PM
Re: ESTRANGELO 100 B.C.? - by Paul Younan - 03-25-2004, 03:47 PM
[No subject] - by SkammyManX - 03-25-2004, 06:27 PM
[No subject] - by abudar2000 - 03-25-2004, 07:49 PM
ORIGIN OF ESTRANGELO - by nashama - 03-25-2004, 10:34 PM
[No subject] - by Paul Younan - 03-26-2004, 12:45 AM

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