Victimology

Lesson 1- "Alphabetic" Signs As with Hieroglyphics, the best place to start is to learn the "alphabetic" signs - those signs representing a single consonant. Since most people using these lessons will probably already be familiar with Hieroglyphic writing, the following table gives correspondences between the Hieratic characters, and the equivalent Hieroglyphs (from which they are derived). Since Hieratic was written from right to left, the signs (both Hieratic and Hieroglyphic) are shown facing right as they would in actual texts. Hieratic
Value
Hieroglyph Hieratic
Value
Hieroglyph

A

x

i

X

a

s

w

s

b

S

p

q

f

k

m

g

n

t

r

T

h

d

H

D

Lesson 2- Common Determinatives Since Hieratic is simply a cursive form of Hieroglyphic, it has the same types of signs. One of these with which you are no doubt familiar is determinatives. Most words in Egyptian are accompanied by one or more determiantives. In fact, picking out determinatives in a text is one way of finding where one word ends and the next begins. They are of course essential in many cases for us to know which of several words of different meaning that are otherwise spelled the same.
In this lesson a number of common and useful determinatives are presented. Some of these are also used as phonetic signs, so they will be your first signs representing more than one consonant. The phonetic values (if any) are indicated after the meaning as a determinative, in larger type.

Hieratic
Meaning
Hieroglyph Hieratic
Meaning
Hieroglyph
**
man, person

town, city

talk, eat

singular *

strike, force, effort

plural

praise, worship

abstract

walk, run

writing sS small, weak evil star dwA wood

house, building pr sky, heaven
pt