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The third script on the stone.
Also known as: Enchorial script, Popular script
The late Egyptian cursive script, more abbreviated than hieratic and used for everyday and legal writing.
Writes late Egyptian for legal, administrative and literary purposes.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
The middle text of the Rosetta Stone, and the one deciphered first because it was alphabetic enough to attack — the Greek gave the meaning, the demotic gave the method and the hieroglyphs came last.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Highly abbreviated cursive outlines of looped and curved strokes with heavy ligaturing, written right to left and far removed in figure from the hieroglyphs they descend from.