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Hieroglyphs written at speed.
Also known as: Cursive hieroglyphic, Priestly script
The cursive Egyptian script written with a reed brush on papyrus, running alongside hieroglyphs for millennia.
Writes Egyptian cursively for administrative, literary and religious documents.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Coexisted with hieroglyphs for three thousand years rather than replacing them: the monument kept the pictures and the papyrus took the shorthand, so the same language had a formal and a working hand throughout its history.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Flowing abbreviated outlines of the hieroglyphic figures, drawn in ink right to left with curved strokes joining common groups into ligatures.