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Aramaic script = script of Assyria (1)

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Aramaic alphabet as “Assyrian script” (1)
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.02 Assyria and Assyrians in Achaemenid sources
12.02.02.03 Aramaic alphabet as “Assyrian script” (1)
Papyrus scrolls
11 Language, communication, libraries and education
11.02 Writing systems and writing media
11.02.02 Alphabetic script
11.02.02.02 Papyrus scrolls

Keywords
Assyria
laws
scripts

Period
Achaemenid Empire

Channel
Iranian culture
Papyri from Egypt

Text
Demotic Chronicle 30-31 (= P.Cairo 50153.2):
[Darius] wrote the words … of the laws of Egypt and they wrote a copy in a papyrus roll in script of Assyria [sh ˀIšr = Aramaic] and of epistles [sh šˀ.t = Demotic].

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Demotic Chronicle 30-31
P.Cairo 50153.2

Bibliography

Spiegelberg 1914

Spiegelberger, W. Die sogenannte demotische Chronik des Pap. 215 der Bibliothèque Nationale zu Paris. Demotische Studien 7. Leipzig: Hinrichs 1914.

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Demotic Chronicle

Simo Parpola

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