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To: blam

The demotic script continued to be used later than the 4th century B.C.--it's one of the three scripts found on the Rosetta Stone (196 B.C.).

3 posted on 03/16/2005 8:15:42 PM PST by Verginius Rufus

To: Verginius Rufus

I think the writer meant A.D., not B.C. -- "The most recent example of writing in the Demotic script dates from 425 AD."

5 posted on 03/16/2005 10:46:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Sunday, March 13, 2005.)

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