Noun:

டெமோட்டிக்,

Adjective:

டெமோட்டிக்,

demotic's Usage Examples:

In demotic the most notable of such works is a papyrus of the first century A.

The split reed of the Greek penman was occasionally adopted by the late demotic scribes.

) was the author of a hieroglyphic and demotic dictionary which still holds the field, and from time to time carried forward the study of demotic by a giants stride.

The table on next page shows them in their more cor rect position, in order to display more clearly their relation to the hieratic and demotic equivalents.

It is a basalt stele inscribed in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek with a decree of the priests assembled at Memphis in favour of Ptolemy V.

Egypt had long been bilingual when, in papyri of the 2nd century AD,, we begin to find transcripts of the Egyptian language into Greek letters, the latter reinforced by a few signs borrowed from the demotic alphabet: so written we have a magical text and a horoscope, probably made by foreigners or for their use.

Some are in Greek and demotic, and one, of peculiar interest from the chemical point of view, gives a number of receipts, in Greek, for the manipulation of base metals to form alloys which simulate gold and are intended to be used in the manufacture of imitation jewellery.

The following eight signs, however, had been taken over from demotic by the Copts:the demotic character, which may be traced back to the XXVIth Dynasty, if not to a still earlier time.

A granite gateway to the temple of Khnflm at Elephantine bears his name in hieroglyphic, and demotic documents are found dated in his reign.

Hieroglyphic is normally written from right youth to left, the signs facing to the commencement of the line; hieratic and demotic follow the same direction.

In business and literary documents red ink was used for contrast, especially in headings; in demotic, however, it is very rarely seen.

demotic), secondly the hieratic employed by the sacred scribes, and finally the hieroevil, worthless- glyphic (Strom.

Others are highly imaginative or with miraculous incidents, like the story of the Predestined Prince and the story of the Two Brothers, which begins with a pleasing picture of the industrious farmer, and, in demotic of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, two stories of the learned Sethon Khamois, sonofRameses II.

Synonyms:

Demotic script, hieratic script, hieratic,

Antonyms:

representational,