Hieratic
Hieratic is a cursive form of
Egyptian hieroglyphs used during the 1st Dynasty (c. 2925 BC-c. 2775 BC). Hieratic script was almost always written in
ink with a reed pen on
papyrus. After about
660 BC, the
demotic script replaced hieratic in most secular writings, but hieratic continued to be used by priests for several more centuries.
See also: Coptic alphabet