Ancient Egyptian scripts
Hieratic script
The Hieratic script was invented and developed more or less at the
same time as the hieroglyphic script and was used in parallel with it
for everyday purposes such as keeping records and accounts and writing
letters. It was used until the 26th Dynasty, though by that time, it
was only used for religious texts, while the Demotic
script was used for most other purposes.
Notable features
- A simplified and abbreviated form of the hieroglyphic script in
which the people, animals and object depicted are no longer easily
recognisable
- Structurally the same as the hieroglyphic script
- Written almost exclusively from right to left in horizontal lines
and mainly in ink on papyrus
- Written in a number of different styles such as "business hand"
and the more elaborate "book hand"
- There were a number of regional variations, one of which, a northern
version, developed into the Demotic
script by the 25th Dynasty
Hieratic glyphs and the hieroglyphs they evolved from
Hieratic determinatives and the hieroglyphs they evolved from
Sample of Egyptian written in the Hieratic script
Links
Information about the Hieratic script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieratic
http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/writing/hieratic.html
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt//writing/hieratic.html
http://www.egyptologyforum.org/bbs/Stableford/Roberson,%20A_Very_Brief_Introduction_to_Hieratic.pdf
http://www.egyptologyforum.org/bbs/Stableford/HieraticPalaeo_I.pdf
Information about Ancient Egyptian
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