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Visual Language used by Egyptian Relief

Makers
Ancient Egyptian Languages
3100 3000 650 200
B.C B.C B.C B.C

HIEROGLYPHIC
HIERATIC WRITING DEMOTIC WRITING COPTIC WRITING
WRITING
Hieroglyphic
Writing
The pictographic script used by the
ancient Egyptian is called hieroglyphic
writing. Hieroglyphs are the characters
used in this writing system.

Hieratic Writing
The Egyptian cursive script, called
hieratic writing, received its name from
the Greek hieratikos (‘priestly’). It was
invented and developed for everyday
purposes such as keeping records, for
writing administrative documents, legal
texts, and religious texts.
Demotic
Writing
Demotic refers to both the ancient Egypt
script derived from northern forms of
hieratic, having a Greek word meaning
‘popular script’. By 5th century bc,
demotic script had come into use
everywhere in Egypt for business and
literary purposes, although hieratic Coptic Writing
remained in use for religious text.
Coptic has an alphabetic script
based on the Greek alphabet, with
several letters derived from demotic
signs. There is a considerable and
varied literature in Egyptian. Coptic
texts are mostly of a religious nature.
Hieroglyphic Language
ORIGIN OF EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS:

One of the most convincing views claims that they derive


from rock pictures produced by prehistoric hunting
One of the
communities living in the desert west of the Nile, who were
earliest
apparently familiar with the concept of communicating by
examples of
means of visual imagery. Some of the motifs depicted on
pictographic
these rock images are also found on pottery vessels of early representation
Pre-dynastic cultures in Egypt. on pottery
MATERIALS USED:
practised by
tribal groups in
Egyptian scribes used papyrus and other alternative writing
the Nile
surfaces, including writing boards generally made of wood.
Until the end of the Eighteenth dynasty (1550-1295 BCE),
these boards were covered with a layer of white plaster
which could be washed and replastered, providing a
convenient reusable surface.
Hieroglyphic signs are
divided into four
categories:
1. Alphabetic signs represent a single sound.

2. Syllabic signs represent a combination of two or


three consonants. Alphabetic signs

3. Word-signs are pictures of objects used as the


words for those objects. they are followed by an
upright stroke, to indicate that the word is complete
in one sign. Combination of two-three
consonants
4. A determinative is a picture of an object which
helps the reader. For example; if a word expressed
an abstract idea, a picture of a roll of papyrus tied
up and sealed was included to show that the
meaning of the word could be expressed in writing
although not pictorially.
Where can we find
Hieroglyphs….
• Rosetta stone is an ancient Egyptian stone
bearing hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a
tablet of black rock known as Granodiorite
with parallel inscriptions in two languages
(Greek and Egyptian) and three scripts
(Greek, Egyptian demotic, and Egyptian
hieroglyphics).

• The stone was discovered at port Saint Julien,


el-Rashid (Rosetta) on the Nile Delta in Egypt
in 1799 CE by a Frenchman named Bouchard.

• The Rosetta stone now has been kept in the


British museum of London.
The temple of Edfu
Location: Edfu,
Egypt

Grafitto of Esmet-Akhom.

The last inscription where


hieroglyph is found Luxor Temple
Location: Luxor, Egypt
Fun facts about Hieroglyphic System

A single picture symbol could stand for a whole word,


called an ‘ideogram’, or a sound, called a ‘phonogram’.

The Ancient Egyptians used no punctuation (like full


stops, commas or question marks) and they didn’t put
any spaces between their words –
maginehowharditwouldbetoreadanythingifwedidthatnow!

There were no vowels in Egyptian hieroglyphs only


consonants, so‘Egyptians are cool’ would be ‘Gyptns r
cl’
There are over 700 hieroglyphic symbols
in the ancient Egyptian alphabet – we only
have 26 letters in our alphabet!

Most ancient Egyptians could not read or


write. The scribes and priests did all the
writing.
Thank You
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Bibliography
ancient_egyptian_hieroglyphics.php

Egyptian_Writing

https://www.britannica.com/topic/hieratic-script

https://omniglot.com/writing/egyptian_hieratic.htm

https://www.ancient.eu/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs/

https://discoveringegypt.com/

https://www.yac-uk.org/news/fun-facts-hierolglyphs

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