<P> Through most of its long history , hieratic was used for writing administrative documents , accounts , legal texts , and letters , as well as mathematical , medical , literary , and religious texts . During the Græco - Roman period , when Demotic ( and later Greek ) had become the chief administrative script , hieratic was limited primarily to religious texts . In general , hieratic was much more important than hieroglyphs throughout Egypt 's history , being the script used in daily life . It was also the writing system first taught to students , knowledge of hieroglyphs being limited to a small minority who were given additional training . In fact , it is often possible to detect errors in hieroglyphic texts that came about due to a misunderstanding of an original hieratic text . </P>
<P> Through most of its long history , hieratic was used for writing administrative documents , accounts , legal texts , and letters , as well as mathematical , medical , literary , and religious texts . During the Græco - Roman period , when Demotic ( and later Greek ) had become the chief administrative script , hieratic was limited primarily to religious texts . In general , hieratic was much more important than hieroglyphs throughout Egypt 's history , being the script used in daily life . It was also the writing system first taught to students , knowledge of hieroglyphs being limited to a small minority who were given additional training . In fact , it is often possible to detect errors in hieroglyphic texts that came about due to a misunderstanding of an original hieratic text . </P>
what kinds of writings were written in hieratic
what kinds of writings were written in hieratic
administrative documents , accounts , legal texts , and letters , as well as mathematical , medical , literary , and religious texts
administrative documents , accounts , legal texts , and letters , as well as mathematical , medical , literary , and religious texts