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Demotic Egyptian script
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Demotic is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta. The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hier
Demotic script on a Rosetta Stone replica
Demotic script on a Rosetta Stone replica
Ostracon with Demotic inscription. Ptolemaic Kingdom, c. 305–30 BC. Probably from Thebes. It is a prayer to the god Amun to heal a man's blindness.
Ostracon with Demotic inscription. Ptolemaic Kingdom, c. 305–30 BC. Probably from Thebes. It is a prayer to the god Amun to heal a man's blindness.
Contract in Demotic writing, with signature of a witness on the verso. Papyrus, Ptolemaic era.
Contract in Demotic writing, with signature of a witness on the verso. Papyrus, Ptolemaic era.
Hieratic
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Hieratic 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 Egyptian script
…Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta. The term was first used by the Greek historian Herodotus to distinguish it from hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts. The Demotic…
Transcribed papyrus, c. 1500 BCE
Transcribed papyrus, c. 1500 BCE
One of four official letters to vizier Khay copied onto fragments of limestone, an ostracon, held at the Royal Ontario Museum
One of four official letters to vizier Khay copied onto fragments of limestone, an ostracon, held at the Royal Ontario Museum
An exercise tablet with a hieratic excerpt from The Instructions of Amenemhat (dated to the eighteenth dynasty reign of Amenhotep I, c. 1514–1493 BCE)
An exercise tablet with a hieratic excerpt from The Instructions of Amenemhat (dated to the eighteenth dynasty reign of Amenhotep I, c. 1514–1493 BCE) reads: "Be on your guard against all who are subordinate to you... Trust no brother, know no friend, make no intimates."