hieratic's Usage Examples:

Chabas (1817-1882) especially addressed himself to the reading of the hieratic textt of the New Kingdom.

A kind of cursive hieroglyphic or hieratic writing is ound even in the 1st Dynasty.

in width; the hieratica, I I digiti or 8 in.

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.

The list appears to have comprised about 460 signs, including most of those that occur commonly in hieratic.

, written in hieratic on papyri of the XIIIth Dynasty to the end of the Middle Kingdom; also in some inscriptions of the XVIIIth Dynasty.

The hieratica thus descended to the third rank.

The best quality, formed from the middle and broadest strips of the plant, was originally named hieratica, but afterwards, in flattery of the emperor Augustus, it was called, after him, Augusta; and the charta Livia, or second quality, was so named in honour of his wife.

Her hieratic and most general form was still lioness-headed, but a popular form, especially in bronze, was a cat-headed women, often holding in her right hand a lion aegis, i.

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.

Most of them have been indifferently restored by local artists, who follow mechanically a kind of hieratic tradition, the principles of which are embodied in a work of iconography by the monk Dionysius, said to have been a pupil of Panselinos.

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

columns of hieroglyphic signs, with their hieratic equivalents and words written in hieratic de d ~ scribing them or giving their values or mean- woo ree ings.

Synonyms:

nonrepresentational,

Antonyms:

unpriestly, representational,