Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>]

I checked into this a little while ago. I didn't find anything in-depth.
The World's Writing Systems has a chapter on numerals, and there was a
book referenced in that chapter that I can't remember offhand. It's
basically a history of numbers and has some material on the numeral
system in Aramaic. (I had to wander over to the engineering library to
find it.) If I remember right, it's actually borrowed from Egyptian, so
you might try looking for something on that.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Søren Holst
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 8:20 AM
> To: Hebrew
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Aramaic numeric signs
> 
> A system for writing figures without spelling out the numerals as
actual
> words existed in Aramaic, the logic of the system being rather akin to
> that
> of Roman numerals. You easily pick it up from reading a few
Elephantine
> letters in Cowley's edition or the like.
> 
> But has a systematic description of the system and its historical
> development and variants (if any) been published anywhere? I've turned
our
> department library upside down to no avail :-(
> 
> kol tuv
> Soren, Copenhagen
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