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hierático (hierática)

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hierático (-a)

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Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and demotic equivalents. en.wikipedia.org

However, in antiquity, the majority of texts were written on perishable papyrus in hieratic and (later) demotic, which are now lost. en.wikipedia.org

Subsequent excavations in 1977 recovered some pottery shards with hieratic inscriptions listing the content, origin and destination of the vessels. en.wikipedia.org

Hieratic was more like cursive and replaced several groups of symbols with individual ones. en.wikipedia.org

The papyrus is a complete, uninjured, absolutely unparalleled hieratic manuscript. en.wikipedia.org

It was found within a coffin that bore his name in hieroglyphs, and on his bandages his name was again written in hieratic script. en.wikipedia.org

Several hieratic characters have diacritical additions so that similar signs could easily be distinguished. en.wikipedia.org

However, repetition of the same numeral for each place-value was not allowed in the hieratic script. en.wikipedia.org

Byzantine painting has a hieratic feeling and icons were and still are seen as a representation of divine revelation. en.wikipedia.org

Like hieroglyphs, hieratic was used in sacred and religious texts. en.wikipedia.org

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