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