Parthian version of Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht
Script type
Abjad
Time period
250 BC
Direction
Right-to-left script
Languages
Parthian language
Related scripts
Parent systems
Aramaic alphabet
Pahlavi scripts
Inscriptional Parthian
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Prti(130), Inscriptional Parthian
Unicode
Unicode alias
Inscriptional Parthian
Unicode range
U+10B40–U+10B5F
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Inscriptional Parthian is a script used to write the Parthian language on coins of Parthia from the time of Arsaces I (250 BC). It was also used for inscriptions of Parthian (mostly on clay fragments) and later Sasanian periods (mostly on official inscriptions).
Inscriptional Parthian is written right to left and the letters are not joined.
Parthian (above), along with Greek (below) and Middle Persian was being used in inscriptions of early Sasanian emperors. Shapur I's inscription at the Naqsh-e Rajab
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