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<p>[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3064244, member: 88829"]The characters in the handstamp are not true Aramaic, but are Punic variants on Phoenician letter forms, and read, from right to left (in good Semitic style), beth-ayin-lamedh = b'l The Beth in this case is open at the top, but in good Aramaic is closed.</p><p><br /></p><p>That element is where you noted on the Tarsos Cilician stater. There it is followed by tsade-resh-zayin = (ts)rz. Here again, the resh is open at the top, but in Aramaic is closed. Based on this spelling and the availability of alternatives, they do not appear to have pronounced the city name quite as we do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the ancient letters from my laptop keyboard, but when approximating what they are writing it is best to go with their phonetic equivalents in Semitic order rather than the graphic appearance of the forms. In other words, by "Luy" (in English letters, left to right) you meant b'l (in Semitic letters, right to left).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3064244, member: 88829"]The characters in the handstamp are not true Aramaic, but are Punic variants on Phoenician letter forms, and read, from right to left (in good Semitic style), beth-ayin-lamedh = b'l The Beth in this case is open at the top, but in good Aramaic is closed. That element is where you noted on the Tarsos Cilician stater. There it is followed by tsade-resh-zayin = (ts)rz. Here again, the resh is open at the top, but in Aramaic is closed. Based on this spelling and the availability of alternatives, they do not appear to have pronounced the city name quite as we do. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the ancient letters from my laptop keyboard, but when approximating what they are writing it is best to go with their phonetic equivalents in Semitic order rather than the graphic appearance of the forms. In other words, by "Luy" (in English letters, left to right) you meant b'l (in Semitic letters, right to left).[/QUOTE]
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