03-25-2004, 03:47 PM
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.):
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