Here we go with our second Carving of the Week! Each time we add a script to the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets we launch it with a short video of me carving text in that script and giving a brief introduction to it. This week: Syriac, and the video is HERE. The full Syriac profile […]
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 […]
