Armas bilingual
The Armasian bilingual ( Georgian არმაზის ბილინგვა ) is an Iberian (Georgian) epitaph from ancient times with a bilingual text in Greek and Aramaic . The Aramaic text is written using the Aramaic script (a variant of Aramaic). The bilingual was found on November 25, 1940 during archaeological excavations near the city of Mtskheta . The text was deciphered in 1941 by the Georgian linguist Giorgi Tsereteli .
The epitaph belongs to the Georgian noblewoman Seraphita, who lived in that area in the 2nd century. The Georgian heads of state and other officials of the 2nd century are also named in the inscription on the bilingual.
Web links
- Aleksandre Noneschwili: Civitas Romana and the nobility of the Iberian kingdoms. (Georgian; PDF; 101 kB)
literature
- Giorgi Tsereteli: Armasische Bilingue, "ენიმკის მოამბე", XIII, 1942, pp. 34–42. (Georgian)
- Г. Церетели: Эпиграфические находки в Мцхета - древней столице Грузии, ВДИ, № 2, М., 1948. (Russian)
- Г. Церетели: Армазское письмо и происхождение грузинского алфавита, Эпиграфика Востока, т. III, Л., 1949. (Russian)
- Herbert Donner , Wolfgang Röllig : Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions 1st 5th edition. Wiesbaden 2002, No. 276.