Demotic script

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ancient Egyptian script cursive script writing system

Demotic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive writing system used for daily, administrative, and literary purposes during the later periods of Egyptian history, including the Ptolemaic era.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Demotic Egyptian	14
Demotic script canonical	11
Demotic	2
Demotic Egyptian script	1
Egyptian Demotic	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Egyptian script ⓘ cursive script ⓘ writing system ⓘ
appearsOn	Rosetta Stone ⓘ
coexistedWith	Coptic script in late Roman Egypt ⓘ Greek alphabet in Ptolemaic Egypt ⓘ hieroglyphic script ⓘ
culturalContext	late Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, and Roman Egypt ⓘ
derivedFrom	Late Egyptian hieratic ⓘ
developedInCentury	7th century BCE ⓘ
firstAttested	circa 650 BCE ⓘ
helpedDecipher	Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ
ISO15924Code	Egyd ⓘ
lastCommonUse	circa 5th century CE ⓘ
laterUsedThroughout	Egypt ⓘ
nameEtymology	from Greek 'demotikos' meaning 'popular' or 'of the people' ⓘ
numberOfSigns	several hundred distinct signs ⓘ
primaryRegion	Lower Egypt ⓘ
region	Egypt ⓘ
replaced	hieratic script in many everyday uses ⓘ
roleInRosettaStone	middle text of the Rosetta Stone inscription ⓘ
scriptComplexity	highly ligatured and abbreviated ⓘ
scriptType	cursive ⓘ
supersededBy	Coptic script for Egyptian language ⓘ
timePeriod	Late Period of Egypt ⓘ surface form: Late Period of ancient Egypt Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ surface form: Ptolemaic period Roman period in Egypt ⓘ
UnicodeBlock	Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ surface form: Egyptian Hieroglyphs (underlying language, not directly encoded as Demotic)
usedBy	scribes in ancient Egypt ⓘ
usedFor	administrative documents ⓘ astronomical texts ⓘ business records ⓘ contracts ⓘ daily writing ⓘ legal documents ⓘ letters ⓘ literary texts ⓘ medical texts ⓘ mythological narratives ⓘ religious texts ⓘ scientific texts ⓘ tax records ⓘ temple administration ⓘ
usedOn	ostraca ⓘ papyrus ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ wooden tablets ⓘ
writingDirection	right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystemFamily	Egyptian scripts ⓘ
writingSystemOf	Egyptian language family ⓘ surface form: Egyptian language

Referenced by (29)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ptolemaic Kingdom → usedScript → Demotic script ⓘ

Egyptians → writingSystemHistorical → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic

Late Period of Egypt → writingSystem → Demotic script ⓘ

Coptic language → usesAdditionalLettersFrom → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Coptic language → developedFrom → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Coptic script → derivedFrom → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian script

Coptic script → relatedTo → Demotic script ⓘ

Egyptian language family → hasPart → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Egyptian language family → hasStage → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Ancient Egyptian → hasWritingStage → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Rosetta Stone → writingSystem → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Egyptian Demotic

Rosetta Stone → scriptOrderTopToBottom → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic

Saite political renaissance → hasWritingSystem → Demotic script ⓘ

Meroitic script → relatedTo → Demotic script ⓘ

pharaohs of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty → language → Demotic script ⓘ

subject surface form: Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Zau → writingSystem → Demotic script ⓘ

Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt → usedScript → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt → usedScript → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Rosetta → hasWritingSystemOnEponymousArtifact → Demotic script ⓘ

Late Egyptian → precedes → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Late Egyptian → influenced → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Egyptian antiquities → writingSystemUsed → Demotic script ⓘ

Bohairic Coptic → developedFrom → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Saite Egypt → writingSystem → Demotic script ⓘ

Fayyumic Coptic → developedFrom → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Hieratic script → replacedBy → Demotic script ⓘ

Hieratic script → coexistedWith → Demotic script ⓘ

Dimeh al-Siba → languageOfInscriptions → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian

Karanis → hasLanguageEvidence → Demotic script ⓘ

this entity surface form: Demotic Egyptian