Examples of writing

Aramaic - 10th cent. B.C. - today

Old Aramaic

Old Aramaic: Inscription of Bar-Hadad (9th cent. B.C.).

l. 1) nsb zy sm br[h]

l. 2) dd br[ ]

l. 3) mlk rm lmr'h lmlqr

l. 4) t zy nzr lh wsm l[ql]

l. 5) h
Stela which erected Bar-Hadad, son of Atarsamak [...], king of Aram, to his Lord Melqart, who
vowed to him and heard his voice
Votive inscription of king Bar-Hadad, carved under a relief portraying Melqart, Phoenician god of
Tyrus. The inscription was unearthed in Brej, North of Aleppo (Syria) and it is housed in the Aleppo
Museum. In this text Aramaic script is still very similar, if not identical, with Phoenician script (cf.
"Phoenician-Aramaic script", Naveh)