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• HIEROGLYPHICS (Gr. iepos, sacred, and'yXv ni, carving)

HIEROGLYPHICS (Gr. iepos, sacred, and'yXv ni, See also:

• CARVING

carving)  , the See also:

• TERM

term used by See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin writers to describe the sacred characters of the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language in its classical phase . It is now also used for various systems of See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing in which figures of See also:

• OBJECTS

objects take the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of conventional signs . Such characters which symbolize the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

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, JAPANESE AND

Chinese characters . See See also:

• EGYPT

EGYPT, Language; See also:

• CUNEIFORM (from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

CUNEIFORM; See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

INSCRIPTIONS and WRITING .