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Hieratic is
an ancient Egyptian cursive script used from the third millennium BCE to the mid-first millennium BCE,
serving as the principal, faster, and more convenient form of writing
for daily, administrative, and literary purposes. Written with a reed
brush and ink on papyrus or ostraca, it was derived from hieroglyphs but
was significantly more simplified, often written right-to-left.
Key aspects of Hieratic include:
- Usage:
While hieroglyphs were used for monumental inscriptions, Hieratic was
the everyday script for business records, letters, medical texts, and
religious documents.
- Evolution:
Developed alongside hieroglyphs, it became distinct by the Old Kingdom
and was eventually replaced by Demotic for secular use around 660 BCE,
though it remained in use by priests for religious texts.
- Appearance:
It is a, logarithmic system with consonant signs, characterized by
highly stylized, rapid strokes that make it faster to write than the
pictorial hieroglyphs.
- Name Origin: The term "Hieratic" comes from the Greek hieratika ("priestly"), as it was later used mainly for sacred texts, despite being used for all purposes earlier in Egyptian history.
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Hieratic
(/haɪəˈrætɪk/; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά, romanized: hieratiká, lit.
'priestly') is the name given to a cursive writing sys...
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