Map depicting locations of Saqqara, Kaunos, Milas, and Hyllarimma. These places each have a different variant of the Carian alphabet.
Cheeky update for the #Carian page on #matuww:
I don't think it's common knowledge for the average person to know where Saqqara ( #Egypt), Kaunos, Milas, and Hyllarimma ( #Anatolia) are, so here is a #map for where these #alphabet variants come from!
An example of #Carian writing:
Limestone stela in the shape of a false door with Carian inscription along the cornice above.
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#Carian #alphabets were written in #Anatolia and #Egypt in 7 - 3 c. BCE. These were also derived from Archaic #Greek.
Carian is notable to have symbols that do not quite correlate with its Greek counterparts.
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#Caunos Tombs of the Kings #Dalyan #Turkiye #PopSockets #SwappablePopGrip #taiche #Lycianrocktomb #Muglaancient #archeology #lycian #Turkiye #history #ancientcity #Carian #ruin #Idyma #rocktomb www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B4H4DR7N
Sidetic, one of the historical alphabetic scripts used in ancient Anatolia, has been added to #Unicode in its 17th edition. Only the Phrygian script is now missing.
#Epigraphy #AnatolianHieroglyphs #Lycian #Lydian #Carian #Sidetic #Phrygian
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#Proto-Rovash is also influenced by numerous writing scripts, including: #Aramaic, #Kharosthi, #Parthian, #Pahlavi, #Nabataean, Early Steppean Rovash, #Greek, #Lydia, #Carian, and #Lycian
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