Ahiqar – Endangered Alphabets

May 27 2012

Assyrian Wisdom, Syriac Script

Tim Brookes Endangered Alphabets: The Blog Ahiqar, AINA, anthropology, Assyrian, carving, endangered alphabets, endangered languages, minority languages, Sennacherib, Syriac, writing systems 0

If you are wearing shoes, Step on thorns and open A path for your children and grandchildren. –Advice from Ahiqar, sage and advisor to the Assyrian king Sennacherib, to his nephew. A month ago, George Bet-Shlimon sent me four text fragments from his personal library of Assyrian documents, written out by hand in the Syriac […]