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Demotic en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. The demotic Egyptian script, used from c. 650 BCE to 452 CE.
    • Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area). 2020, Vanessa Davies, Dimitri Laboury, The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, page 611:
  2. The demotic Egyptian language, spoken from c. 650 BCE to 400 BCE.