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Hieratic (from the Greek meaning "sacred") is a Cursive script of Egyptian Hieroglyph s first used during the 1st Dynasty (c. 2925 BC - c. 2775 BC ). Hieratic script was almost always written in Ink with a Reed pen on Papyrus . After about 660 BC , the Demotic script (''demotic'' is from the Greek meaning "of the people" or "popular") replaced hieratic in most secular writing, but hieratic continued to be used by Priest s for several more centuries. The modern Figurative use of 'hieratic' refers to the language of the highly educated elite in comparison with the language of the masses (see Demotic ). from the Bibliothèque Nationale De France , containing the ''Precepts of Kagemni'' and the ''Precepts of Ptahhotep'' in hieratic.]] SEE ALSO
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