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	Hieratic script
		Hieratic script was used in carved or painted inscriptions, normally written in ink with a reed pen on papyrus.
		In general, hieratic script was more important in Ancient Egypt than hieroglyphs —; hieratic script was taught in school, while hieroglyphs were only understood by a small minority in the society.
		Hieratic script was in the first phases written vertically, but this changed to horizontal writing with a direction only from right to left.
	i-cias.com /e.o/hieratic.htm (248 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Hieroglyphs, Hieratic and Demotic text
		Hieratic was originally mainly used in administrative texts, but because it was more practical and less time-consuming than hieroglyphics, it found its way into literature, wisdom texts and even religious writings.
		Contrary to hieratic, demotic texts are normally not transcribed into hieroglyphics prior to translation because it is often impossible to relate a demotic sign to a hieroglyphic counterpart.
		Therefore hieratic was used in such contexts as administrative texts; texts that were not to be inscribed on monuments or funerary objects and texts that mattered for their contents only.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /hieroglyphs_writingancient.htm (928 words)

	The Language of Ancient Egypt: Hieroglyphic Lessons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hieratic writing is as old as hieroglyphic, but it is more cursive and the result of a quick hand drawing signs on a sheet of papyrus with a reed brush.
		Hieratic was mainly used for religious and secular writings on papyrus or on linen and during the Greek-Roman era occasionally in an inscription of a temple wall.
		As the two writings evolved, practicality caused hieratic to be used when a text need not be written in the slow but detailed hieroglyphic signs and was used in administrative texts, texts that were not to be inscribed on monuments or on funerary objects, texts that mattered for their contents only,...
	www.ancient-egypt.org /language/grammar/0201_types.html (748 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hieratic
		Hieratic (from the Greek meaning "sacred") is a cursive script of Egyptian hieroglyphs first used during the 1st Dynasty (c.
		The modern figurative use of 'hieratic' refers to the language of the hightly educated elite in comparison with the language of the masses (see demotic).
		A section of the Prisse papyrus from the BibliothÃ¨que nationale de France, containing the Precepts of Kakemna and the Precepts of Ptahhotep in hieratic.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hieratic (2741 words)

	Basic Lessons in Hieratic - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hieratic is the cursive form of Hieroglyphic writing which the Egyptians used for everday writing.
		Hieratic developed very early in Egyptian history, and remained in use for most documents until around 700BCE when it was replaced by Demotic.
		Hieratic, as the practical form of writing, was the first type of writing that the Egyptian scribes learned.
	home.prcn.org /sfryer/Hieratic/introduction.html (415 words)

	Tanaloth Encyclopedia: H (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hieratic is also used as a spoken language by priests alongside Tanalath and the isles dialects.
		High Hieratic is the language that Hieratic descends from, a descendant in turn of New Hrkun and Tenebrian, the ancient tongue of the Tenbrian Emperors.
		It is a M/H langauge that defaults to Hieratic -2.
	www.teuton.org /~stranger/Tanaloth/Encyclopedia/H.html (294 words)

	AncientScripts.com: Egyptian Hieroglyphs
		Hieratic is the "priestly" script extensively used on manuscripts and paintings, and really is just a rather cursive form of monumental hieroglyphics.
		And finally, demotic is a highly cursive script that replaced hieratic as the script for everyday use from 600 BCE onward.
		In addition to the monumental hieroglyphic, the cursive hieratic also date from as early as the reign of king Ka in the form of pottery inscription.
	www.ancientscripts.com /egyptian.html (1017 words)

	Egyptian Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hieratic is considered the "priestly" script, and was extensively used on manuscripts and paintings in the ancient Egyptian world up to about 650B.C..
		The early hieratic has a more fluent form than hieroglyphs, and the individual signs are less pictorial and more abbreviated.
		The hieratic inscriptions were usually written in fl ink with a brush made of reed.
	puffin.creighton.edu /museums/greiner/hieratic.htm (92 words)

	Two Notes on Egyptian Script - FARMS JBMS
		Hieratic from the beginning was a script adapted for brush on papyrus; for carving, hieroglyphics were used.
		hieratic began to be used for carving in stone.
		A discussion of the development of demotic and abnormal hieratic, arguing that abnormal hieratic was also available in the north, as evidenced in Louvre C101 and several Serapeum stelae.
	farms.byu.edu /display.php?id=120&table=jbms (3640 words)

	Egypt: History of Ancient Egyptian Writing (hieroglyphs), A Feature Tour Egypt Story
		Hieratic is an adaptation of the hieroglyphic script, the signs being simplified to make their writing quicker.
		Hieratic was the administrative and business script throughout most of its history, and recorded documents of a literary, scientific and religious nature.
		Hieratic could be written in columns or horizontal lines, but it always read from right to left.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/writing.htm (1106 words)

	In Iranian Islam - II -- Hieratic Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		When he affirms the superiority of the hieratic life over that of a mere philosopher, then this precedence agrees exactly with the one Suhrawardî gives to the hakîmmuta'allih in the mystical hierarchy of the sages whose origin goes back to Hermes.
		It dealt with the capability of conferring upon the soul the faculty of breaking the bonds with the body and physical nature (this reminds one of the correspondence between the two Greek terms: teleutân, to die, and teleîstai, to be initiated).
		It remains to be said that this hieratic operation, the ecstatic anticipation of death's exitus, can only manifest itself and can only be lived except as the end of time and of all things, as an individual eschatological event.
	esquipulas.homeunix.com /eii2_6.html (2340 words)

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		The hieratic script developed alongside the hieroglyphic for use principally in writing on papyrus, although it was occasionally used for notes on pieces of pottery or stone.
		The relationship of the hieroglyphic and the hieratic scripts is not unlike the relationship of the script used for printed text and that for cursive handwriting in English.
		Hieratic is known from before the Fourth Dynasty to the third century CE.
	www.sonoma.edu /users/p/poe/Excursus/Egyptian/egy_writ.htm (2480 words)

	Late Egyptian Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Sheldon Lee Gosline is the founding director of the Hieratic Font Project of the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations.
		The cursive hieratic writing is at least as different from carved Egyptian hieroglyphs as cursive modern handwriting is from Roman block letters, and many times the ancient scribes used a sort of shorthand, especially for the most common signs.
		Many of the complex hieratic signs are closer to their hieroglyphic equivalents.
	shangri-la.0catch.com /hp/hp2.html (512 words)

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		Hieratic used diacritical additions to distinguish between two signs that had grown similar to one another because of cursive writing.
		For example, the cow’s leg received a supplementary distinguishing cross, because in Hieratic it had come to resemble the sign for the leg of a man. Certain Hieratic signs were taken into the hieroglyphic script.
		In offices, Hieratic was replaced by Demotic in the seventh century BC, but it remained in fashion until much later for religious texts of all sorts.
	www.zohery.com /11.html (2720 words)

	Late Egyptian Letters, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This paper suggests an alternative approach to the subject and maps out a possible way in which hieratic may enter the mainstream of scientific investigation, as illustrated by one of the most common sign, the seated man, as found in Late Egyptian.
		First, however, we must wade through a massive corpus of hieratic letters, literary documents and fragments, as if they were dismembered fragments of a giant puzzle.
		To understand the ancient approaches to writing, the development of written communication and perhaps even to glimpse beyond the linguistic thoughts of the past into the subconscious elements of writing itself is why we concern ourselves with this subject.
	www.shangrilapublications.org /hp/hp3b.html (1199 words)

	Hieroglyphic
		Where hieratic texts often are transcribed into hieroglyphic before translation, demotic texts usually are not.Demotic was mostly used in administrative and private texts, but also in stories and quite exceptionally in inscriptions.
		The last demotic inscription was also found in the temple of Isis on the island of Philae.Its name comes from the Greek word demotikos meaning 'popular'.It is important to note that neither writing would entirely replace another, but it would merely restrict the other writings to specific domains and be restricted itself to other domains.
		Thus demotic would become the writing of the administration from the 26th Dynasty on, but it did not entirely replace hieratic as a handwriting, which was still being used in religious texts.Hieratic, on its part, did not replace hieroglyphic either.
	www.geocities.com /poregypt/e6.htm (573 words)

	Marianne Gouge \| Duke Papyrus Archive Sample Pages \| Browse \| Hieratic
		Hieratic is Ancient Egyptian written in a formal script used for papyri.
		Hieratic was developed from the Hieroglyphs for writing on papyrus.
		Abnormal Hieratic was developed specifically for documentary texts while Hieratic was increasingly restricted to literary texts.
	www.unc.edu /~mgouge/papyrus/hieratic.shtml (196 words)

	Hieratic script
		The term hieratic really applies to the periods when demotic was in use, after about 700 BC.
		However, for convenience Egyptologists use the term hieratic for the less cursive script at all periods, even though, until 700 BC, it was used for everyday purposes as well as sacred purposes.
		early Middle Hieratic - the cursive script of the early Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC), found in letters and accounts until the reign of Senusret III (in provincial centres perhaps later); examples from the end of this period are to be found among the fragmentary accounts papyri from Lahun, e.g.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /writing/hieratic.html (538 words)

	Search Results for hieratic - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Egyptian cursive script, called hieratic writing, received its name from the Greek hieratikos (“priestly”) at a time when the script was used only for sacred texts.
		Demotic script derived from the earlier pictographic hieroglyphic inscriptions and the cursive hieratic script (q.v.), and it began to replace hieratic writing during the...
		hieratic manuscript of the 19th dynasty of Egypt, listing the kings of Egypt from earliest times to the reign of Ramses II (1279–13 BC), under whom it was written.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=hieratic&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (384 words)

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		Hieratic was the cursive form of hieroglyphic writing, and there is usually a one-for-one correspondence between hieroglyphs and hieratic signs.
		Unfortunately, there is not any easy crash course in hieratic available, and maybe no one will ever create one either, since the market for such a thing is so incredibly small, and tradition has dictated that people struggle on their own to decipher hieratic in the fashion described above.
		I suggest that there are aspects of hieratic, such as its fractions, that have been under valued by being tied too tightly to the hieroglyphic context.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1997/v1997.n026 (2225 words)

	Ramesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Hieratic is a cursive script used in Egyptian as early as the Archaic Period (ca.
		Typically executed with a brush on papyrus, hieratic could be written either vertically or horizontally, and was read from right to left.
		Although hieratic was rarely used for monumental inscriptions, hieratic texts were often written on limestone ostraka or on the surfaces of tombs and temples in the form of graffiti.
	carlos.emory.edu /RAMESSES/2_heiratic.html (101 words)

	Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic are the three scripts that used in ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.
		The early hieratic has a more fluent form than hieroglyphs, and the individual signs had become more abbreviated by the time of Old Kingdom.
		Hieratic was the script for administration and business use that to record the literature, scientific
	logos.uoregon.edu /explore/orthography/egypt.html (594 words)

	Introductory Late Egyptian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Since then, all hopes of a standard hieratic font were discarded “once and for all,” according to Gardiner, writing in 1929.
		Furthermore, the two goals of the work may rightly be considered to be in opposition to one another.
		We of course have no evidence that Egyptian hieratic signs were organized in any particular manner.
	shangri-la.0catch.com /hp/hp1.html (513 words)

	Hieratic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Folks The Egyptian hieratic script would be an example of what Nick calls "data compression within a language".
		The word is compressed into the first and last character of the conventional hieroglyphic representation, and the two characters are combined into a single cursive form.
		In hieratic, then, "he lives" ankh-f, would be written as a simplified ideograph fused with the masculine ending "-f" (looks like a little snake with horns).
	www.voynich.net /Arch/2002/01/msg00099.html (279 words)

	Hieratic Egyptian used in Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		"Curiously, these hieratic signs do not appear in contemporaneous documents of Israel's neighbors, even though Egypt's relations with Philistia and Phoenicia in the ninth and tenth centuries B.C.E. were much closer than those with Israel.
		That this use of Egyptian hieratic was ONLY used by Israel, and not by its neighbors is highly significant.
		Being that this use of hieratic Egyptian was evident in the 7th-8th centuries B.C.E., it is very possible that such training was passed down to Lehi and Nephi, and finding its way into Nephi's plates.
	www.geocities.com /rameumptom/bom/potsherd.html (277 words)

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