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  1. Used until 400 A.D. Hieratic was a style of
  2. cursive writing popular with Egyption priests
  3. for copying literary compositions on papyrus.
  4. Hieratic was used to inscribe religious texts
  5. on wooden coffins during the XIth and XII
  6. dynasties.
  7.