Hieratic Meaning
Hieratic is to simplify the Hieroglyph writing or, in other words, a shortcut through the script Hieroglyph, a script of full marks not commensurate with the nature of the word secular and religious, Hieratic type of Ancient Egyptian writing simplified hieroglyphic symbols written symbols of what was original. Hieroglyphic writing is unsuitable for fast-originated short reports for each sign in place of the original hieroglyphic.
I miss the word "Heratiqi" from the Greek word "Heratikos" "Hieratikos"
and means "priestly" and to indicate that the priests were the most
commonly used for this script, where a large proportion of the texts
hieratic, especially in later times it is the religious texts, written
mainly through priests. which increased by increasing the movement of life, which required the script quickly, and required materials, writing was not suited with it, but the highway such as papyrus and Alaustraka (Alhqavp ) and in contrast to the script Hieroglyph which fits more with the large structures where Alheiratiqi reeds and ink wrote the engraved Blazamal and the script.
Hieratic was used in ancient Egypt for nearly 2000 years until the first of the dynastic era of the modern state was suitable for writing on papyrus, documents, reports, inventories, and in the courts. And I also wrote on the stones in the era of King Alliepien. The hieratic writing on papyrus stick-thin jungle tapered Age dipped in black ink or red at the beginning of the paragraphs in the accounts, and punctuation marks Land wrote the names of evil creatures and wrote hieratic in lines perpendicular to the Middle Kingdom and then wrote Badzlk gradually in brief horizontal from right to left.
And the emergence of writing around 800 Demotic hieratic then lost power replaced by demotic writing a famous line of tourists and Greeks called hieratic writing on the line or the holy men of religion, for use in the sacred texts written in the Roman era in high-lines it lost all the old joy.