Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta...
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Demotiс Egyptian language was the state of the Egyptian language used in the New Kingdom of Egypt and Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. The formation...
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Old Egyptian, Archaic Old Egyptian, Pre-Old Egyptian, or archaic Egyptian standard Old Egyptian Middle Egyptian Later Egyptian Late Egyptian Demotic Egyptian...
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of the Greek language Demotic (Egyptian), an ancient Egyptian script and version of the language Chữ Nôm, the demotic script for writing Vietnamese All...
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for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic...
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Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in...
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and demotic counterparts. This process facilitates the publication of texts where the inclusion of photographs or drawings of an actual Egyptian document...
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shorthand for various languages including Hebrew, Demotic (Egyptian), Hieratic (Egyptian), Coptic (Egyptian), Mayan/Olmec, and Irish ogham ciphers. Hugh Nibley...
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Hieratic (redirect from Egyptian hieratic)
Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the...
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Ancient Egyptian literature was written with the Egyptian language from ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. It represents...
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Graffito (archaeology) (section Late (Roman) Demotic)
late Egyptian Demotic was used only for ostraca, mummy labels, subscriptions to Greek texts, and graffiti. The last dated example of Egyptian Demotic is...
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Coptic language (redirect from Egyptian-Coptic language)
words of Egyptian origin that entered into Greek and subsequently into other European languages came directly from Ancient Egyptian, often Demotic. An example...
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Cleopatra (redirect from Cleopatra VII of Egypt)
in the Demotic Egyptian language. Overall this is a much smaller body of surviving native texts than those of any other period of Ptolemaic Egypt. For the...
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farmers, who lived in rural villages and spoke the Egyptian language (which evolved from the Demotic Egyptian of the Late and Ptolemaic periods to Coptic under...
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Coptic script (category Ancient Egyptian language)
development of Egyptian. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the uncial Greek alphabet, augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic. It was the...
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Rosetta Stone (category Ancient Egyptian stelas)
dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively...
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the modern Egyptian city of Luxor. Thebes was the main city of the fourth Upper Egyptian nome (Sceptre nome) and was the capital of Egypt for long periods...
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described as "very decayed, powdery and worthless"; and 237 mainly in Demotic Egyptian and Greek, but including a few in Coptic, Arabic and Latin. Astarte...
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direct borrowing from Demotic Egyptian. The word for oasis in the latter-attested Coptic language (the descendant of Demotic Egyptian) is wahe or ouahe which...
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quality uncertain) but became e by Late Egyptian.[citation needed] Egyptian language Egyptian mathematics "Egyptian numerals". MacTutor - School of Mathematics...
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Elephantine papyri and ostraca (category Ancient Jewish Egyptian history)
from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Aswan, which yielded hundreds of papyri and ostraca in hieratic and demotic Egyptian, Aramaic,...
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Papyrus Amherst 63 (redirect from Aramaic Text in Demotic Script)
Amherst 63 (CoS 1.99) is an ancient Egyptian papyrus from the third century BC containing Aramaic texts in demotic script. The 35 texts date to the eighth...
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Meroitic script (redirect from Meroitic demotic)
scripts are Meroitic Cursive, derived from Demotic Egyptian, and Meroitic Hieroglyphs, derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Meroitic Cursive is the most...
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Greek Magical Papyri (redirect from Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri)
to a body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, written mostly in ancient Greek (but also in Old Coptic, Demotic, etc.), which each contain a number of...
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Egyptian script may mean: Egyptian hieroglyphs Egyptian hieratic Egyptian demotic This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Egyptian...
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Copts (redirect from Coptic Egypt)
historically spoken the Coptic language, a direct descendant of the Demotic Egyptian that was spoken in late antiquity. Following the Muslim conquest, the...
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The phases of ancient Egyptian are Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian (Classical Egyptian), Late Egyptian, Demotic and Coptic. Egyptian writings do not show...
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(role-playing game), 1981 Merc (script) or Meroitic Cursive, derived from Demotic Egyptian Merc 2000, an alternative setting for the Twilight 2000 role-playing...
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which in turn are the basis for Gaelic type. Chamalières tablet Demotic (Egyptian) Hieratic Larzac tablet Vindolanda tablets Oxford, Scripts at Vindolanda...
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by a demotic astronomical papyrus dating to sometime after 144 AD which outlines a lunisolar calendar operating in accordance with the Egyptian civil...
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