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Hieratic
Hieratic meaning
Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt. | Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart. | Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.
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Padamsee, as an artist, led us into a space of refined aesthetic, balancing between the hieratic and the human.
In an anonymous review of the lettre Young attributed the discovery of the hieratic as a form of hieroglyphs to de Sacy and described Champollion's decipherments merely as an extension of Åkerblad and Young's work.
Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and demotic equivalents.
While formal hieroglyphs may be read in rows or columns in either direction (though typically written from right to left), hieratic was always written from right to left, usually in horizontal rows.