Hieratic app for iPhone and iPad


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Developer: jf.dumon
22.99 USD
Current version: 1.4, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 28 Jan 2015
App size: 75.85 Mb

This application aims to show the correspondence between hieroglyphs carved on Egyptian monuments and fast writing on papyrus by scribes.
Hieratic is a cursing writing system used by scribes in the antic Egypt. It was a way to simplify hieroglyphs and quickly write on papyrus. This simplified writing can be variable according to the scribes who write more or less rapidly with their own style. This is why there are many variations of the same writing hieroglyph.
Hieratic signs correspond exactly to the Hieroglyphic signs.  The same rules of spelling and arrangement of signs applies to Hieratic as to Hieroglyphic.
All hieroglyphics may not have their equivalent in hieratic, and there are many simplifications to ligate several hieroglyphs.