Hieratic

Hieratic
Transcribed papyrus, c. 1500 BC
Script type	Logographic with consonants
Time period	c. 3200 BC – 3rd century AD
Direction	Mixed
Languages	Egyptian language
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Hieratic
Child systems	Demotic possibly inspired Byblos syllabary
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Egyh (060), ​Egyptian hieratic
Unicode
Unicode range	U+13000–U+1342F (unified with Egyptian hieroglyphs)
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Hieratic (/haɪəˈrætɪk/; 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 BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE. It was primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus.^[1]