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Hieratic (/haɪəˈrætɪk/;
Ancient Gr****: ἱερατικά, romanized: hieratiká, lit. 'priestly') is the name
given to a
cursive writing system used for Ancient...
- had no
concept of a
positional notation such as the
decimal system. The
hieratic form of
numerals stressed an
exact finite series notation,
ciphered one-to-one...
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northern forms of
hieratic used in the Nile Delta. The term was
first used by the Gr****
historian Herodotus to
distinguish it from
hieratic and hieroglyphic...
- world's
earliest literature.
Writing in
ancient Egypt—both
hieroglyphic and
hieratic—first
appeared in the late 4th
millennium BC
during the late
phase of predynastic...
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hieroglyphs known as
hieratic.
Hieratic has many
ligatures and
signs unique to itself. However,
there is a
certain degree of
influence from
hieratic in the visual...
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hieroglyphs were used for
religious literature on
papyrus and wood. The
later hieratic and
demotic Egyptian scripts were
derived from
hieroglyphic writing, as...
- Unamūn, or [informally] as just Wenamun) is a
literary text
written in
hieratic in the Late
Egyptian language. It is only
known from one
incomplete copy...
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similarly shaped symbols in the
hieratic writing system, a
cursive writing system whose signs derived from hieroglyphs. The
hieratic signs stood for fractions...
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occasional use in the land of Israel,
known as
Palestinian Hieratic,
mostly of
isolated hieratic symbols,
dating from the 8th
through early 6th centuries...
- 1876 "Facsimile of an
Egyptian Hieratic papyrus of the
reign of
Ramses III"
published by the
British Museum. The
hieratic text of the
papyrus consists of...
