demotic
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Another inscription on the vessel is written in Demotic script, a simplified form of ancient Egyptian writing.
From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2025
The use of Egyptian hieroglyphs, for example, continued for centuries until it was ultimately replaced by Meroitic, an alpha-syllabic script derived from the Egyptian Demotic script.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Bearing inscriptions of the same text in Hieroglyphs, Demotic and Ancient Greek, it was used by Frenchman Jean-Francois Champollion to decipher Hieroglyphs from 1822, opening up understanding of ancient Egyptian language and culture.
From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2022
And the three bands of text — classical Greek, hieroglyphs and an Egyptian shorthand called Demotic — were intended to proclaim the monarch’s achievements in multiple tongues to the peoples of the empire.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021
Ferlini, a student of the Demotic writings which had superseded hieroglyphics, doubted not that he had translated the revelation aright, though he admitted supplying many missing words in accordance with his own deductions.
From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
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