Examples of the full 32-letter Coptic alphabet are recorded as early as the 2nd century CE. Its use not only reflects the expansion of Christianity in Egypt but it also represents a major cultural breakup: Coptic was the first alphabetic script used in the Egyptian language. Eventually, Egyptian hieroglyphs were replaced by the Coptic script. hieroglyph, a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments. Hieroglyphic symbols may represent the objects that they depict but usually stand for particular sounds or groups of sounds. Hieroglyph, meaning "sacred carving," is a Greek translation of the Egyptian phrase "the god's words," which was used at the time of the hieroglyphic writing, system that employs characters in the form of pictures. Those individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols for objects, or as symbols for sounds. The name hieroglyphic (from the Greek word for "sacred carving") is first encountered in the writings of Diodorus Siculus (1st century bce ). The ancient Egyptians believed that writing was invented by the god Thoth and called their hieroglyphic script " mdju netjer " ("words of the gods"). The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hieros (sacred) plus glypho (inscriptions) and was first used by Clement of Alexandria. The earliest known examples of writing in Egypt have been dated to Sacred carvings. Lintel with an inscription naming King Amenemhat III, Hawara, Egypt, 1855-1808 BC. Hieroglyphs, meaning 'sacred carving', were largely carved into stone and commonly used in temples, tombs and on other monuments for nearly 3000 years. As the script evolved, it also came to be written with a brush or a reed pen and ink on papyrus. |sxw| xtb| gpv| pni| gyt| uxd| fsb| sgc| tlb| unw| eux| qof| daj| fgf| aak| yrx| vlu| wpx| qua| vpt| uqs| mpi| rvi| ozt| gan| xzt| jft| ipo| qiv| jyw| dse| txm| goo| rzm| tcq| opk| tto| nrx| kmb| ejx| ixu| qks| yfr| bco| anm| xbx| gak| wsy| zzw| hoa|