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
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
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."
Cursive hieroglyphs
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Cursive hieroglyphs, or hieroglyphic book hand, are a form of Egyptian hieroglyphs commonly used for handwritten religious documents, such as the Book of the Dead. This style of writing was typically
Hieratic
…the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE. It was primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus. Hieratic should not be confused with cursive hieroglyphs. The two were indistinct during the Old Kingdom but separated into different writing systems during the First Intermediate Period. In the second century…
A section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs.