Historians have desired to recognise in Sethon a King Zêt of the XXIIIth dynasty, or even Shabîtoku of the XXVth dynasty; Krall identified him with Satni in the demotic story of Satni-Umois.
Pakruru, is indicated by the details in the demotic romance published by Krall, where the foundation of the story is the state of Egypt in the time of the "twelve kings.
It is not quite certain when the demotic first came into use, but it was at least as early as the reign of Psammetichus II.
This stone, a tablet of black basalt, contains three inscriptions, one in hieroglyphics, another in demotic or enchorial, and a third in the Greek language.
It was invented at least as early as the ninth dynasty (4,240 years ago), and fell into disuse when the demotic had been introduced.
It was also found that a demoticinscription was ordered to be added by the priests, on a stone or brass stele, in the sacred writing of the Egyptians and in Greek characters; this is unfortunately wanting.
The cursive forms of writing--hieratic from the earliest times, demotic in the latest--were those in which records were committed to papyrus.
On the one hand the transactions of ordinary life were more easily registered in the cursive demotic script, while on the other the sacred writings were more thoroughly investigated and brought into order by the priests.
As I have said, the Egyptians have left us no books, and had they done so the art of deciphering hieroglyphics or even phonetic or demotic writing is not yet assured enough to allow of absolute trust being put in it.
In this department also they explained the art of writing numbers no less involved in hieroglyphic or demotic characters.
Each letter was expressed through a number of hieroglyphs, or a number of demotic characters.
The only further resemblance is in the Demotic 4 and in the 9, so that the statement that the Hindu forms in general came from {70} this source has no foundation.
The upper and lower portions of the stone were broken and injured, but the demotic inscription was perfect.
The inscription on it was in three kinds of writing: the hieroglyphic, the demotic or enchorial, and the Greek.
Akerblad, a Swedish orientalist attached to the embassy in Paris, identified the proper names of persons which occurred in the demotic text, being guided to them by the position of their equivalents in the Greek.
Revillout addressed himself with success to the task of interpreting the legal documents of demotic which had been almost entirely neglected for thirty years.
Cleopatra; of the two cartouches on the obelisk one was of Ptolemy, the other was easily recognized as that of Cleopatra, spelt nearly as in Champollion's experimental transcript of the demotic name, only more fully.
In demotic the most notable of such works is a papyrus of the first century A.
Hieroglyphic is normally written from right to left, the signs facing to the commencement of the line; hieratic and demotic follow the same direction.
In the temple of Philae, where the worship of Isis was permitted to continue till the reign of Justinian, Brugsch found demotic inscriptions with dates to the end of the 5th century.
In his last years he was able to translate long texts in hieroglyphic and in hieratic of the New Kingdom and of the later periods with some accuracy, and his comprehension of demotic was considerable.
One of the most characteristic distinctions of later demotic is the minuteness of the writing.
A granite gateway to the temple of Khnum at Elephantine bears his name in hieroglyphic, and demotic documents are found dated in his reign.
Demotic grammar ought soon to be thoroughly comprehensible in its forms, and the study of Late Egyptian should not stand far behind that of demotic.
The table on next page shows them in their more correct position, in order to display more clearly their relation to the hieratic and demotic equivalents.
The Greek and demotic versions were still almost perfect, but most of the hieroglyphic text had been broken away with the top of the tablet; portions of about half of the lines remained, but no single line was complete.
Though demotic has not yet received serious attention at Berlin, the influence of that great school has made itself felt amongst demotists, especially in Switzerland, Germany, America and England.
The demotic is derived from the hieratic, and the hieratic from the hieroglyphic.
Wallis Budge adds that "the Greek portion of the inscriptions appears to be the original document, and the hieroglyphic and demotic versions merely translations of it.
This ruler was devoted to art, architecture and adventure, and one of the inventions of his reign was the enchorial or demotic writing which superseded the hieratic.
Egyptian writing was of three distinct kinds, known as Hieroglyphic, Hieratic and Demotic or Enchorial.
That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.
Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.
To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
On applying these principles to the Seri tribe, in the light of their meager industrial motives and still poorer esthetic motives, it would appear that they stand well at the bottom of the scale in demotic development.
The king is named Harmachis, and so far there are known to exist only three other contracts of his time, two in the Berlin Museum (Demotic Pap.
In one of these sealed vessels, found under the floors, two demotic papyri were discovered (see description by Spiegelberg, p.
In the demotic papyrus preserved at Bulaq (novel by Setnau) first treated by H.
Whilst the hieroglyphic and hieratic writings laid the foundations of the old sacred dialect, the demotic letters were only used to write the spoken language of the people.
Both de Sacy and Åkerblad began their labours by attacking the Demotic equivalents of the cartouches, i.
The original form of the Decree is given by the Demotic section, and the Hieroglyphic and Greek versions were made from it.
Fragments of papyri inscribed with Greek and demotic have been found at the north-eastern foot of the hillock, and it may be that they mark the site of the chamber where Herodotos listened to the words of the roll.
The Pharaoh married a Greek wife, and a demotic papyrus, now at Paris, even describes how he robbed the temples of Memphis, On and Bubastis of their endowments and handed them over to the Greek troops.
The names of the kings who composed it have recently been found in deeds written in demotic characters.
It was under Euergetes, moreover, that the so-called Decree of Canopus was drawn up in hieroglyphics and demotic Egyptian as well as in Greek.
Osiris and Isis make way for Christ and the Blessed Virgin, the Coptic alphabet replaces the demotic script of heathenism, and the bodies of the dead cease to be embalmed.
The earliest example of thisdemotic or enchorial or vulgar writing belongs to the age of Psammetichus (the latter part of the seventh century B.
The demotic writing does not give the slightest indication that there were different dialects of the spoken language (see Brugsch, Grammaire Demotique, p.
Already in the demotic writing we find a few of these foreign intruders naturalized; but in the Coptic, as used for ecclesiastical purposes, they occur in the greatest profusion.
The demotic writing was interspersed with figures of the Egyptian deities, used as symbolic or alphabetical signs.
This demotic character also is represented in a large number of extant papyri of various ages.
The demotic character was derived ultimately from the hieroglyphic.
Muthes or Mutis, who is not mentioned in all the lists of Manetho, seems to have his counterpart in the Demotic Rhapsody.
This is, at any rate, the idea given of him by Egyptian tradition in the time of the Ptolemies, as results from a passage in the Demotic Rhapsody, where his reign is mentioned.
A demotic contract in the Turin Museum bears the date of the third month of the second season of the thirty-fifth year of Darius I.
Hieratic andDemotic writing of the Egyptians, 303.
It has been said in an earlier page that the hieratic and demotic scripts differed from the hieroglyphic in being written like Hebrew in long horizontal lines from right to left.
The demotic script, a still more cursive reduction of the hieratic, had come into use probably a thousand years B.
The demotic was a complex cursive evolved from the hieratic; its invention, or at least its use to any considerable degree, does not appear to have been much antecedent to 600 B.
Examples of both hieroglyphic and demotic writing are given in the plates accompanying this sketch.
It was probably about the beginning of the Christian era that the demotic finally disappeared before the Coptic, an alphabet derived from the Greek, of which Plate 3 gives an example.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demotic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
