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Visual depiction of Alaha

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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

Organization
Abrahamic Monotheism
Time period
c. 1200 BCE – present
Location
Worldwide

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.