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

blog.unicode.org/2025/09/unic...

As we have little evidence of how #Sidetic users look like, we are unable to provide a portrait. #help if there is evidence otherwise

An example of Sidetic epigraphy:
Sidetic dedication from the eastern gate (S3)
Source:
tinyurl.com/rzfymwwa
#history #archaeology #matuww #epigraphy #paleography
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#Sidetic is an alphabet thought to have been developed from #Phoenician in parallel with #Greek and was used in #Anatolia.

Note that only some letters were certain to be derived from Phoenician.

Full page: matuww.github.io/script_info/...
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#matuww