Egyptien de tradition
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Égyptien de tradition (term is a French terminus technicus), also known as Traditional Egyptian,[1] is a literary and religious hieroglyphic written language artificially cultivated in ancient Egypt from the later New Kingdom until the Greco-Roman Period (14th century BCE - 4th century CE). It is based on older varieties of Egyptian, in particular Middle Egyptian (therefore also referred to as "Neo-Middle Egyptian",[2] or "Late-Middle Egyptian"[3])[4] but in some cases also contains characteristics of Old Egyptian, Late Egyptian, or Demotic.
More on the basis of significantly different hieroglyphic orthography than linguistic characteristics, a distinction is usually made between:
- classical Égyptien de tradition, written in the classical hieroglyphic writing system (from the 14th century BC)
- “Ptolemaic” (Égyptien de tradition of the Greco-Roman Period with its own characteristic hieroglyphic, “Ptolemaic” writing system; from the 4th century BC)
The last hieroglyphic inscription, written in Égyptien de tradition, dates to the end of the 4th century AD.