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HIEROGLYPHICS (Gr. iepos, sacred, and...

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 454 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIEROGLYPHICS (Gr. iepos, sacred, and'yXv ni, See also:carving) , the See also:term used by See also:Greek and Latin writers to describe the sacred characters of the See also:ancient See also:Egyptian See also:language in its classical phase. It is now also used for various systems of See also:writing in which figures of See also:objects take the See also:place of conventional signs. Such characters which symbolize the See also:idea of a thing without expressing the name of it are generally styled " ideographs " (Gr. ib&a, idea, and ypa4eiv, to write), e.g. the See also:Chinese characters. See See also:EGYPT, Language; See also:CUNEIFORM; See also:INSCRIPTIONS and WRITING.

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