Demotic script
E102009
Demotic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive writing system used for daily, administrative, and literary purposes during the later periods of Egyptian history, including the Ptolemaic era.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Demotic Egyptian | 14 |
| Demotic script canonical | 11 |
| Demotic | 2 |
| Demotic Egyptian script | 1 |
| Egyptian Demotic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T831656 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Demotic script Context triple: [Ptolemaic Kingdom, usedScript, Demotic script]
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A.
Coptic script
Coptic script is an alphabetic writing system used primarily by Egyptian Christians to write the Coptic language, derived largely from the Greek alphabet with additional characters from Demotic Egyptian.
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B.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs are the formal, pictorial writing system of ancient Egypt, used for monumental inscriptions, religious texts, and administrative records over several millennia.
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C.
Old Nubian script (historically)
Old Nubian script is an ancient alphabetic writing system used in medieval Nubia to record the Old Nubian language, particularly in Christian religious and administrative texts.
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D.
Demotic Greek
Demotic Greek is the modern vernacular form of the Greek language that evolved from everyday speech and became the basis of the standard Modern Greek used today.
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E.
Hieroglyphic Luwian
Hieroglyphic Luwian is an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language known from inscriptions written in a distinctive hieroglyphic script used in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia and northern Syria.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Demotic script Target entity description: Demotic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive writing system used for daily, administrative, and literary purposes during the later periods of Egyptian history, including the Ptolemaic era.
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A.
Coptic script
Coptic script is an alphabetic writing system used primarily by Egyptian Christians to write the Coptic language, derived largely from the Greek alphabet with additional characters from Demotic Egyptian.
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B.
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs are the formal, pictorial writing system of ancient Egypt, used for monumental inscriptions, religious texts, and administrative records over several millennia.
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C.
Old Nubian script (historically)
Old Nubian script is an ancient alphabetic writing system used in medieval Nubia to record the Old Nubian language, particularly in Christian religious and administrative texts.
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D.
Demotic Greek
Demotic Greek is the modern vernacular form of the Greek language that evolved from everyday speech and became the basis of the standard Modern Greek used today.
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E.
Hieroglyphic Luwian
Hieroglyphic Luwian is an extinct Anatolian Indo-European language known from inscriptions written in a distinctive hieroglyphic script used in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia and northern Syria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Egyptian script
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cursive script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| appearsOn | Rosetta Stone ⓘ |
| coexistedWith |
Coptic script in late Roman Egypt
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Greek alphabet in Ptolemaic Egypt ⓘ hieroglyphic script ⓘ |
| culturalContext | late Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, and Roman Egypt ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Late Egyptian hieratic ⓘ |
| developedInCentury | 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| firstAttested | circa 650 BCE ⓘ |
| helpedDecipher | Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ |
| ISO15924Code | Egyd ⓘ |
| lastCommonUse | circa 5th century CE ⓘ |
| laterUsedThroughout | Egypt ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | from Greek 'demotikos' meaning 'popular' or 'of the people' ⓘ |
| numberOfSigns | several hundred distinct signs ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Lower Egypt ⓘ |
| region | Egypt ⓘ |
| replaced | hieratic script in many everyday uses ⓘ |
| roleInRosettaStone | middle text of the Rosetta Stone inscription ⓘ |
| scriptComplexity | highly ligatured and abbreviated ⓘ |
| scriptType | cursive ⓘ |
| supersededBy | Coptic script for Egyptian language ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Late Period of Egypt
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surface form:
Late Period of ancient Egypt
Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
Ptolemaic period
Roman period in Egypt ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlock |
Egyptian hieroglyphs
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surface form:
Egyptian Hieroglyphs (underlying language, not directly encoded as Demotic)
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| usedBy | scribes in ancient Egypt ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative documents
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astronomical texts ⓘ business records ⓘ contracts ⓘ daily writing ⓘ legal documents ⓘ letters ⓘ literary texts ⓘ medical texts ⓘ mythological narratives ⓘ religious texts ⓘ scientific texts ⓘ tax records ⓘ temple administration ⓘ |
| usedOn |
ostraca
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papyrus ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ wooden tablets ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | Egyptian scripts ⓘ |
| writingSystemOf |
Egyptian language family
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surface form:
Egyptian language
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How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Demotic script Description of subject: Demotic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive writing system used for daily, administrative, and literary purposes during the later periods of Egyptian history, including the Ptolemaic era.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.