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hieratic
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hieratic: see hieroglyphic hieroglyphic [Gr.,=priestly carving], type of writing used in ancient Egypt. Similar pictographic styles of Crete, Asia Minor, and Central America and Mexico are also called hieroglyphics (see Minoan civilization; Anatolian languages; Maya; Aztec).
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The Phoenicians based their alphabet on an ancient Egyptian hieratic script.
 
 
 
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