hieratic - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • Egyptian: The value of the weight is uniformly written in Egyptian hieratic.

Modifies a noun

  • inscription: Only one sherd with an hieratic inscription has been found, mentioning meat.
  • script: This form of writing also took its name from the hieros or priest and is called hieratic script.
  • writing: Or, if they wouldn't have me, then painting beautiful hieratic writing on the walls of a nobleman's tomb.
  • figure: Behind them rise ten hieratic faceless figures viewed from a child's perspective, impossibly pristine in their immaculate, starched white aprons.
  • text: The use of the negative arms for the preposition n " to, for " etc. , is fairly common in Hieratic texts.
  • form: As a result, girls ' school stories cannot be viewed as a " hieratic form of art " .

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