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IRAN (Country) PERSIAN GULF
When the Persian king Darius the Great (522-486) ordered the Behistun inscription
to be made, he also ordered the making of a special, Persian alphabet, which he
called 'the Aryan script'. It consists of thirty-six signs indicating syllables
and eight ideograms for the words 'king', 'country' (2x) 'good', 'god', 'earth',
and 'Ahuramazda' (3x). A slanting wedge (\) is used as a word divider. This alphabet
was mainly used for royal inscriptions; the last text in the 'Aryan script' can
be dated in the fourth century BCE.
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