Palmyrene alphabet

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The Palmyrene alphabet is an ancient Aramaic-derived script used in the city of Palmyra in Roman Syria for inscriptions and documents between roughly the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Palmyrene alphabet canonical 3
Palmyrene Unicode block 1
Palmyrene script 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf abjad ⓘ
alphabet ⓘ
writing system ⓘ
associatedWith Palmyrene Empire ⓘ
country Syria ⓘ
culturalContext Greco-Roman Near East ⓘ
derivedFrom Aramaic alphabet ⓘ
endTime circa 3rd century CE ⓘ
hasFeature matres lectionis for vowels ⓘ
no vowel letters ⓘ
hasVariant cursive Palmyrene script ⓘ
monumental Palmyrene script ⓘ
historicalUsageStatus extinct ⓘ
influencedBy Nabataean script ⓘ
linked to: Nabataean alphabet
languageFamily Aramaic ⓘ
languageWritten Palmyrene Aramaic ⓘ
numberOfLetters 22 ⓘ
region Levant ⓘ
linked to: Levant region

Middle East ⓘ
relatedTo Hebrew alphabet ⓘ
Phoenician alphabet ⓘ
Syriac alphabet ⓘ
replacedBy Arabic script ⓘ
scriptCodeISO15924 Palm ⓘ
scriptDirection right-to-left ⓘ
startTime circa 1st century BCE ⓘ
subclassOf Aramaic script ⓘ
Semitic script ⓘ
timePeriod 1st century BCE ⓘ
3rd century CE ⓘ
unicodeBlock Palmyrene ⓘ
unicodeRange U+10860–U+1087F ⓘ
usedBy Palmyrenes ⓘ
linked to: Palmyra
usedFor documents ⓘ
funerary inscriptions ⓘ
honorific inscriptions ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ
religious inscriptions ⓘ
usedIn Palmyra ⓘ
Roman Syria ⓘ
writingMedium metal ⓘ
ostraca ⓘ
parchment ⓘ
plaster ⓘ
stone ⓘ
writingSystemFamily Aramaic ⓘ
writingSystemScope epigraphic ⓘ
writingSystemType consonantal alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nabataean alphabet → relatedTo → Palmyrene alphabet ⓘ
Aramaic alphabet → ancestorOf → Palmyrene alphabet ⓘ
subject linked to: Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Palmyrene Aramaic → writingSystem → Palmyrene alphabet ⓘ
Palmyrene Aramaic → writingSystem → Palmyrene script ⓘ
linked to: Palmyrene alphabet
Palmyrene Aramaic → hasWritingSystemUnicodeBlock → Palmyrene Unicode block ⓘ
linked to: Palmyrene alphabet