Hieratic script also uses a much more standardized orthography than hieroglyphs ; texts written in the latter often had to take into account extra-textual concerns, such as decorative uses and religious concerns that were not present in, say, a tax receipt.

* Hieratic script

After the reunification of Egypt under Psametik I, Demotic replaced Abnormal Hieratic in Upper Egypt, particularly during the reign of Amasis when it became the official administrative and legal script.

Hieratic refers to a cursive writing system that was used in the provenance of the pharaohs in Egypt and Nubia that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, to which it is intimately related.

Hieratic is noted for its cursive nature and use of ligatures for a number of characters.

Hieratic is often present in any given period in two forms, a highly ligatured, cursive businesshand used for administrative documents, and a broad uncial bookhand used for literary, scientific, and religious texts.

A highly cursive form of hieratic known as " Abnormal Hieratic " was used in the Theban area from the second half of the 20th dynasty until the beginning of the 26th Dynasty.

The Unicode standard considers Hieratic characters font variants of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the two scripts have been unified.

Ancient Egyptian texts could be written in either hieroglyphs or in Hieratic.

This may have also been assisted by the eventual availability of papyrus as well as the evolution of the hieroglyphs into the more comprehensible forms of Hieratic ( from the Greek ' hieros ' meaning ' sacred ' and coined by Herodotus ( c. 484-424 BCE )) and Demotic.

* The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden ( Pap.

A Tale of Woe from a Hieratic Papyrus in the A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.

* A. H. Gardiner: The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden.

Hieratic formalized recreational hunting has been taking place since Assyrian kings hunted lions from chariots in a demonstration of their royal nature.

* 1898: Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob ( principally of the middle kingdom ).

Certain scholars hypothesized ties with Hieratic, Cuneiform, or even an independent creation, perhaps inspired by some other writing system.

Other Mormon apologists have suggested that the characters resemble those of shorthand or various languages including Hebrew, Demotic, Hieratic, Coptic, Mayan / Olmec, and Irish ogham ciphers.

Hieratic can also be an adjective meaning " f or associated with sacred persons or offices ; sacerdotal.

Hieratic was used throughout the pharaonic period and into the Graeco-Roman Period.

Hieratic has had influence on a number of other writing systems.

Soon after, Prof. Gosline founded the Hieratic Font Project and released the first in a series of reference works on hieratic.

There are several goals of the Hieratic Font Project.

Phoenician transcription as ספתח, and Neo-Babylonian transcription < sup > I </ sup > si-ip-ta-ḫu ( Vittmann, Göttinger Miszellen 70, p. 65 ), cited in Muchiki, Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords, 29 .</ ref > Moreover, This recalls the syncretic mythology in the Late Egyptian Hieratic story of " Astarte and the Sea ," wherein Semitic Astarte is also called " Daughter-of-Ptah.

* Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character, 3 pts.

“ The Gaze of a Stranger: Gwendolyn MacEwen ’ s Hieratic Eye .” Paragraph 13. 2 ( 1991 ): 10-13.

As Lepsius was able to read some signs of Hieratic, he recognized some of the royal cartouche names of the kings and dated the text to the old kingdom.

The transition from the older Egyptian scripts to the newly adapted Graeco-Coptic script was in part due to the decline of the traditional role played by the priestly class of ancient Egyptian religion, who unlike most ordinary Egyptians, were literate in the temple scriptoria.

Most Indian languages, unlike English, have a nearly phonetic pronunciation with respect to their script, so the spelling of a word is a highly reliable guide to its modern pronunciation.

Indeed, a just case may be made that his directorial merit flowed easily from his exquisitely crafted screenplays: he never directed a film based on a script written by someone else ( unlike other Malayalam film directors of comparable stature, say, Bharathan and K. G. George ), and rarely adapted his script from a story not his own.

I always write full script though, and unlike some other artists, Shawn actually pays attention to the script.

The desk, referred to as a desq in the early version of Card's Ender's Game movie script, was a device ( not unlike a tablet computer ) used for performing exercises as well as communicating with other students.

* its primary characteristics ( scriptory, morphological, orthographical ) show strong connection with the Glagolitic script, unlike the standard Church Slavonic form of Cyrillic script associated with Eastern Orthodox churches

The Syriac script was a cursive variation of Aramaic.

Japanese writing had long depended on Chinese ideograms ( kanji ), but these were now supplemented by kana, two types of phonetic Japanese script: katakana, a mnemonic device using parts of Chinese ideograms ; and hiragana, a cursive form of kanji writing and an art form in itself.

A cursive Hebrew script is used in handwriting: the letters tend to be more circular in form when written in cursive, and sometimes vary markedly from their printed equivalents.

The medieval version of the cursive script forms the basis of another style, known as Rashi script.

It has been identified as having " inspired some of the most important developments in human history including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops and the development of cursive script, Mathematics, Astronomy and Agriculture.

Montecassino was also the starting point for another characteristic of Beneventan monasticism: the use of the distinct Beneventan script, a clear, angular scrip derived from the Roman cursive as used by the Lombards.

* In Russian cursive, as well as in some others based on the Cyrillic script ( for example, Macedonian ), a lowercase Т looks like a lowercase m, and a macron is often used to distinguish it from Ш, which looks like a lowercase w ( see Т ).

A series of transformations, for book purposes, of the cursive documentary script that had grown out of the later Roman cursive would get under way in France by the mid-7th century.

In Spain half-uncial and cursive would both be transformed into a new script, the Visigothic minuscule, no later than the early 8th century.

He called it " cursive Coptic " because, although it had few similarities with the later Coptic script, he was convinced that it was used to record some form of the Coptic language ( the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian ).

Higher rates of recognition of general cursive script will likely not be possible without the use of contextual or grammatical information.

The shapes of individual cursive characters themselves simply do not contain enough information to accurately ( greater than 98 %) recognise all handwritten cursive script.

Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong of Song China | Emperor Gaozong ( 1107 – 1187 ) of Song Dynasty ; fan mounted as album leaf on silk, four columns in cursive script.

Each region seems to have developed its own standards following the main monastery of the region ( i. e. Merovingian script, Laon script, Luxeuil script, Visigothic script, Beneventan script ), which are mostly cursive and hardly readable.

A modern fountain pen, writing in cursive script

Running script eventually evolved into grass script, a fully cursive form, in which the characters are often entirely unrecognizable by their canonical forms.