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Hieratic

Hieratic (/haɪəˈrætɪk/; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά, romanized: hieratiká, lit. 'priestly') is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE.

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Child systems
Demotic possibly inspired Byblos syllabary
Direction
Mixed
Languages
Egyptian language
Parent systems
Hieratic
Period
c. 3200 BCE – 3rd century CE
Script type
Logographic with consonants

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Hieratic

Nodes65
Edges64
Triples83
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030769
Components1

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Hieratic

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related to Uses and materials · 17
Hieratic → Besides, Deir, Demotic, During, Egypt's, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Greek, In, It, Madinah, Most, Roman, There, These, Thousands, Through
related to Influence · 12
Hieratic → Byblos, Coptic, Demotic, Hebrew, It, Meroitic, Nile Valley, Old Kingdom, Old Nubian, Outside, Related, The
related to Development · 11
Hieratic → Although, Ancient Egypt, Around, BCE, CE, Characteristics, Dead, Demotic, Egypt, Egyptian Book, Naqada III
related to External links · 11
Hieratic → AKU Project, Ancient Egyptian, Georg Möller's, Georg MöllerHieratische Paläographie Database, Hieratic ScriptEgyptian, Hieroglyphs, Mainz University, November, Resources, Tsukuba University, Wayback Machine
related to Etymology · 7
Hieratic → Alexandria, Ancient Egyptian, Clement, Greek, In, Koine Greek, The
related to Unicode · 7
Hieratic → Egyptian, Hieroglyphs, October, The Unicode, Unicode Standard, Version, With
related to Characteristics · 5
Hieratic → Amenemhat III, Egyptologists, Initially, Several, There
see also · 4
Hieratic → CuneiformEgyptian, East Asia, Egyptian, Möller
Child systems · 1
Hieratic → Demotic possibly inspired Byblos syllabary
Direction · 1
Hieratic → Mixed

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used script hieroglyphs cursive demotic writing egyptian texts also hieroglyphic papyrus period ancient bce unicode greek religious letters often written

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
HieraticChild systemsDemotic possibly inspired Byblos syllabary1.00infobox
HieraticDirectionMixed1.00infobox
HieraticISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Egyh (060), ​Egyptian hieratic1.00infobox
HieraticLanguagesEgyptian language1.00infobox
HieraticParent systemsHieratic1.00infobox
HieraticPeriodc. 3200 BCE – 3rd century CE1.00infobox
HieraticScript typeLogographic with consonants1.00infobox
HieraticUnicode rangeU+13000–U+1342F (unified with Egyptian hieroglyphs)1.00infobox
Hieraticis acursive form of the underlying hieroglyphic characters0.90text
Hieraticrelated to CharacteristicsInitially0.60section
Hieraticrelated to CharacteristicsAmenemhat III0.60section
Hieraticrelated to CharacteristicsThere0.60section

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