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What (who) is hieratic - definition
CURSIVE WRITING SYSTEM USED IN THE PROVENANCE OF THE PHARAOHS IN EGYPT AND NUBIA
Hieratic Script; Hieratic script; ISO 15924:Egyh; Egyptian hieratic; Hieratic writing
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Hieratic
·adj Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.
hieratic
[?h???'rat?k]
¦ adjective
1. of or concerning priests.
2. of or in the ancient Egyptian writing of abridged hieroglyphics used by priests. Compare with demotic.
3. of or concerning Egyptian or Greek styles of art adhering to early methods as laid down by religious tradition.
Derivatives
hieratical adjective
hieratically adverb
Origin
C17 (orig. as hieratical): via L. from Gk hieratikos, from hierasthai 'be a priest'.
hieratic
a.; (also hieratical)
Sacerdotal, priestly, sacred, consecrated, devoted to sacred uses.
Wikipedia
Hieratic
Hieratic (; Ancient Greek: ἱερατικά, romanized: hieratiká, lit. 'priestly') is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BC until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BC. It was primarily written in ink with a reed pen on papyrus.
Examples of use of hieratic
1. The sculpture is flat, linear, hieratic, self–consciously primitive, the baby enclosed protectively in its mother‘s robes.
2. Photographs are anecdotal; paintings are, at least in Hockney‘s case, as hieratic as official portraits, although now the artist and not the sitter controls the image.