Armas font

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Armas bilingual. The lower Aramaic text is written in the Armasic script

The Armas script ( Georgian არმაზული დამწერლობა ) is a variant of the Aramaic script that was used in the ancient Georgian state of Iberia in addition to the Greek and probably Georgian alphabet in the first century after the birth of Christ. The famous Armasian bilingual was written with the Armas script. In addition, archaeological excavations in Mtskheta in the 20th century found several examples of this script.

Research started in the early 20th century. In 1941, Professor Giorgi Tsereteli was able to decipher the Armas script. He noted that the Armas script was developed from the Aramaic , which was common in the northeastern part of Mesopotamia in Hellenism .

The script is closely related to the Avestian script . Some scholars are of the opinion that the origin of the Georgian alphabet is linked to the Armasian - and thus the Aramaic script.

See also

literature

  • Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Tbilisi, 1975, p. 576 (Georgian)
  • Г. Церетели, Армазское письмо и происхождение грузинского алфавита, Эпиграфика Востока, т. III, Л., 1949. (Russian)