I'm particularly pleased that I was able to demonstrate that the appendix to the #Mandaic Book of the Zodiac must have been composed after the mid-tenth-century, because it presumes the plausibility of #Byzantine attacks on Aleppo (Mandaic Glab < Arabic Halab). That makes it a #medieval source!

2/2 #Mandaic #portrait #timelapse

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1/2 #Mandaic #portrait clothing, pose and style references.

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A #portrait of #Mandeans. They are an ethnoreligious group who are followers of #Mandaeism and use the #Aramaic -derived #Mandaic script liturgically to this very day.

Learn more about the Mandaic script from our post.

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Combined graphic of a Syriac New Testament manuscript (consonants mostly in red, vowel signs in black), a Babylonian Hebrew Bible manuscript, and a Kufic Qur'an manuscript with vowel signs in red, yellow, and green.

Call for papers: submit your abstract on #Semitic reading traditions (like #Hebrew, #Arabic, #Aramaic including #Syriac and #Mandaic) for our panel at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (8-12 September, Erlangen) by 23 February. If you please. www.academia.edu/127430195/Cf...

Here is an example of #Mandaic epigraphy:
#Pottery incantation bowl (6 - 8 c. CE) inscribed with a Mandaic #incantation to protect Shrula son of Duktanuba and Qaqay daughter of Kaspasta against evil spirits
Sources:
tinyurl.com/2ynma8sr
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#Mandaic is an #Aramaic derived script. It is used to write Mandaic in Ahvaz, Khūzestān (modern-day #Iran), and used liturgically in #Mandaeism.

Full page: matuww.github.io/script_info/...
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