Aramaic

Quando gli scienziati inventarono una lingua: il pahlavīnella filologia dell’Ottocento

This article aims to offer a historical overview of the discovery of Book Pahlavī or Zoroastrian Middle Persian between the last decades of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century; it is a topic which has never been studied since Carl Salemann's brief introduction to the chapter devoted to Middle Persian in Geiger and Kuhn's "Grundriss der iranischen Philologie".

Categorial Traces of Inalienable Possession in Pahlavī Aramaic Masks

This paper deals with a specific Aramaic heterographic stock in Middle Persian and Parthian scripts (both inscriptional and bookish), namely masks concerning kinship terms and lexemes for the body parts. After a thorough state-of-the-art report on the logographic issue in the Middle Persian scripts, a new hypothesis is put forward: the <-H> ending logograms are Aramaic "frozen" names with a mandatory 3rd sing. pron. suffix, which marked the inalienable property of the possessa.

Iranian Color Terms in Aramaic Documents from Ancient Bactria

Even though the foreign transmission of Old Persian lexemes has been examined quite extensively, some terms regarding colors have been neglected and deserve further investigation. This paper examines certain Iranian color terms in Achaemenid Aramaic documents from Ancient Bactria included in Naveh and Shaked’s 2012 publication. Color terms are generally attested in texts marked by the letter C that regard the storage and distribution of goods and commodities as well as their quantity.

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