U+10860 "𐡠" Palmyrene Letter Aleph Unicode Character

U+10860 "𐡠" Palmyrene Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Palmyrene alphabet, representing the glottal stop sound /ʔ/ and serving as the direct ancestor of the letter "aleph" in later Semitic scripts like Hebrew and Arabic. This character was used in the ancient Palmyrene script, which flourished between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in the city of Palmyra in modern-day Syria, primarily for inscribing monumental inscriptions and economic documents. As part of the Palmyrene block in Unicode, it preserves a vital piece of the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Aramaic-speaking peoples of the Near East.