Re: Assyrian character
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 28, 2002, 17:37 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > Would a Persian diplomat be likely to use any version of the Hebrew
> > alphabet? (Or, we should presumeably say, the Hebrew abjad, in deference
>to
> > the ongoing discussions of various classes of writing systems.)
>
>Not inconceivable. Aramaic was the lingua franca of the entire area.
Not to mention a major administrative language of the Achaemenid Empire. So
if Aramaic was written in this _ashurit_ Hebrew script, it would make
complete sense.
Andreas
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