On the territory of contemporary Georgia, particularly in its Eastern part, being historically Iberian kingdom (4th c BC –4c c AD), a number of original Aramaic inscriptions are found. They are inscribed on different objects and could be dated by the period of 3rd c BC-3 c AD.
The greater part of these Aramaic inscriptions is executed in a variety of the North-Mesopotamian type of Aramaic script, known as “Armazian”, one of the outgrowths of the Imperial (Official) Aramaic writing, widely used in Achaemenid Empire (550 BC –330 BC).
The whole corpus of the Aramaic inscriptions of Georgia requires systematic interdisciplinary researches, for revealing the main trends of its typological development in the light of Near Eastern-South Caucasian cultural-linguistic interference.