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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...
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Canaan (/ˈkeɪnən/; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in
pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan;
Biblical Gr****: Χαναάν – Khanaán; Arabic: كَنْعَانُ...
- 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...
- afterlife. The Book of the Dead was most
commonly written in
hieroglyphic or
hieratic script on a
papyrus scroll, and
often illustrated with
vignettes depicting...
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written using both the
hieroglyphic and
hieratic scripts.
Demotic is the name of the
script derived from the
hieratic beginning in the 7th
century BC. The...
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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...
- ISBN 978-1-317-58942-6. A. Gardiner,
Ancient Egyptian Grammar (3rd ed., 1957), 71–76.
Hieratic Papyrus from
Kahun and Gurob, F. LL. Griffith, 38, 17. Petrie, W. M. (William...
- 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...
