Hieratic

Development of hieratic script from hieroglyphs; after Champollion.

Hieratic (from the Greek meaning "sacred") is a cursive script of Egyptian hieroglyphs first used during the 1st Dynasty (c. 2925 BC - c. 2775 BC). Hieratic script was almost always written in ink with a reed pen on papyrus. After about 660 BC, the Demotic script (demotic is from the Greek meaning "of the people" or "popular") replaced hieratic in most secular writing, but hieratic continued to be used by priests for several more centuries.

The modern figurative use of 'hieratic' refers to the language of the highly educated elite in comparison with the language of the masses (see demotic).

A section of the Prisse papyrus from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, containing the Precepts of Kagemni and the Precepts of Ptahhotep in hieratic.

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[Basic Lessons in Hieratic]

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Places: Nile \| Upper and Lower Egypt \| Abu Simbel \| Abydos/Abdju \| Alexandria \| Al Fayyum/Atef-Pehu \| Amarna/Akhetaten \| Dahshur \| Edfu \| Elephantine/Abu/Yebu \| Giza \| Heliopolis/Annu/Iunu \| Karnak \| Luxor \| Memphis/Ineb Hedj \| Philae/Pilak \| Qift/Coptos \| Rosetta \| Saqqara \| Tanis/Djanet \| Thebes/Niwt/Waset \| Valley of the Kings \| Valley of the Queens
Great Ennead of Heliopolis: Atum \| Shu \| Tefnut\| Geb \| Nut (Nuit) \| Osiris \| Isis \| Set \| Nephthys
Other Major Deities: Amun \| Anubis \| Apep \| Apis \| Aten \| Bast \| Djehuty \| Hathor \| Horus \| Khepri \| Chons \| Maàt \| Min \| Neith \| Ptah \| Ra \| Sekhmet \| Sobek \| Wepwawet \| Heryshaf
Ogdoad of Heliopolis: Amun/Amunet \| Huh/Hauhet \| Kuk/Kauket \| Nun/Naunet
War Deities: Anhur \| Bast \| Maahes \| Pakhet \| Sekhmet
Deified Concepts: Chons \| Hapy \| Maàt \| Min \| Renenutet \| Shai \| Hu \| Saa
Other Deities: Bes \| Chnum \| Seker \| Seshat \| Tawaret
Death: Mummy \| Four sons of Horus \| Canopic jars \| Ankh \| Book of the Dead \| KV \| Mortuary temple \| Ushabti
Buildings: Pyramids \| Karnak Temple \| Sphinx \| Great Lighthouse \| Great Library \| Deir el-Bahri \| Colossi of Memnon \| Ramesseum \| Abu Simbel
Writing: Egyptian hieroglyphs \| Egyptian numerals \| Transliteration of ancient Egyptian \| Demotic \| Hieratic
Chronology: Ancient Egypt \| Ptolemaic Egypt \| Roman Egypt
Lists: List of Egyptian Dynasties \| List of Pharaohs
Science and Culture: Medicine \| Architecture \| Cats in Ancient Egypt

Places: Nile \| Upper and Lower Egypt \| Abu Simbel \| Abydos/Abdju \| Alexandria \| Al Fayyum/Atef-Pehu \| Amarna/Akhetaten \| Dahshur \| Edfu \| Elephantine/Abu/Yebu \| Giza \| Heliopolis/Annu/Iunu \| Karnak \| Luxor \| Memphis/Ineb Hedj \| Philae/Pilak \| Qift/Coptos \| Rosetta \| Saqqara \| Tanis/Djanet \| Thebes/Niwt/Waset \| Valley of the Kings \| Valley of the Queens
Great Ennead of Heliopolis: Atum \| Shu \| Tefnut\| Geb \| Nut (Nuit) \| Osiris \| Isis \| Set \| Nephthys
Other Major Deities: Amun \| Anubis \| Apep \| Apis \| Aten \| Bast \| Djehuty \| Hathor \| Horus \| Khepri \| Chons \| Maàt \| Min \| Neith \| Ptah \| Ra \| Sekhmet \| Sobek \| Wepwawet \| Heryshaf
Ogdoad of Heliopolis: Amun/Amunet \| Huh/Hauhet \| Kuk/Kauket \| Nun/Naunet
War Deities: Anhur \| Bast \| Maahes \| Pakhet \| Sekhmet
Deified Concepts: Chons \| Hapy \| Maàt \| Min \| Renenutet \| Shai \| Hu \| Saa
Other Deities: Bes \| Chnum \| Seker \| Seshat \| Tawaret
Death: Mummy \| Four sons of Horus \| Canopic jars \| Ankh \| Book of the Dead \| KV \| Mortuary temple \| Ushabti
Buildings: Pyramids \| Karnak Temple \| Sphinx \| Great Lighthouse \| Great Library \| Deir el-Bahri \| Colossi of Memnon \| Ramesseum \| Abu Simbel
Writing: Egyptian hieroglyphs \| Egyptian numerals \| Transliteration of ancient Egyptian \| Demotic \| Hieratic
Chronology: Ancient Egypt \| Ptolemaic Egypt \| Roman Egypt
Lists: List of Egyptian Dynasties \| List of Pharaohs
Science and Culture: Medicine \| Architecture \| Cats in Ancient Egypt

Hieratic

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