Hieratic symbols where simpler for everyday use. It was a cursive form of writing created by simplifying the shapes of the Hieroglyphs. But over time they got replaced with demonic over time. 2. Hieroglyphic and Hieratic writing developed concurrently and independently of one another.
They were closely related, though the exact nature of their relationship is unknown. There is little evidence to suggest that one descended from the other, but it is probable that they were mutually influential. Hieratic was the more cursive of the two. Both scripts were used from roughly 3200 BC until 400 AD. Generally, Hieroglyphics were used for monumental inscriptions and decorative texts, and Hieratic was used for administrative texts which placed more importance in content than …show more content…
Although many single symbols were still used to write whole words or concepts, the symbol did not necessarily visually resemble the concept it represented. As Demotic writing gained popularity, it began to replace Hieratic writing in the administrative context, though Hieratic continued to be used in religious texts. Demotic writing was used until roughly 400 AD, when all three scripts began to fall from use in favor of the Coptic alphabet.
3. The Rosetta Stone; written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt. The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents. The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt. The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time. The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said.
4. A cartouche is a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends, used ornamentally or bearing an inscription. The decipherment was largely the work of Thomas
Young of England and Jean-François Champollion of France. The hieroglyphic text on the
They were closely related, though the exact nature of their relationship is unknown. There is little evidence to suggest that one descended from the other, but it is probable that they were mutually influential. Hieratic was the more cursive of the two. Both scripts were used from roughly 3200 BC until 400 AD. Generally, Hieroglyphics were used for monumental inscriptions and decorative texts, and Hieratic was used for administrative texts which placed more importance in content than …show more content…
Although many single symbols were still used to write whole words or concepts, the symbol did not necessarily visually resemble the concept it represented. As Demotic writing gained popularity, it began to replace Hieratic writing in the administrative context, though Hieratic continued to be used in religious texts. Demotic writing was used until roughly 400 AD, when all three scripts began to fall from use in favor of the Coptic alphabet.
3. The Rosetta Stone; written in three scripts because when it was written, there were three scripts being used in Egypt. The first was hieroglyphic which was the script used for important or religious documents. The second was demotic which was the common script of Egypt. The third was Greek which was the language of the rulers of Egypt at that time. The Rosetta Stone was written in all three scripts so that the priests, government officials and rulers of Egypt could read what it said.
4. A cartouche is a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends, used ornamentally or bearing an inscription. The decipherment was largely the work of Thomas
Young of England and Jean-François Champollion of France. The hieroglyphic text on the