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Vol. IV · Monotheism
Alaha
the Aramaic and Syriac word for God
inscribed in Serto script on an ancient Syriac Christian manuscript from Edessa, surrounded by the Eastern cross of the church
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Names of the One God has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.