A 2nd-century AD Old Coptic magical texton papyrus, written using both Greek and Demotic characters. Old Coptic is the earliest stage of Coptic writing, a form of late Egyptian written in …

Old Coptic is represented mostly by non-Christian texts such as Egyptian pagan prayers and magical and astrological papyri. Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and …

Aug 30, 2019 · As an offshoot to the mini-series of posts on “Old Coptic Magical Texts”, that is, magical texts featuring Egyptian text written in an Old Coptic script, this post provides a brief …

Coptic icon of St. Mark Portrait of a Coptic Christian woman by Bertha Müller, circa 1850. The Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East. Although integrated in …

Jan 23, 2025 · Egypt’s Coptic period—also called Egypt’s Christian period—lasted 500 years, from the fourth century to the ninth century C.E., when the majority of Egypt’s population was …

During the Roman period a new writing system called "Old Coptic" evolved, ushering the decline of the Demotic. The earliest recognizable form is datable to the end of the first century A.D. It …

Coptic was an official language in Egypt until around the 13th Century AD, when it was replaced by Arabic. Nowadays Coptic Christians all speak Arabic as their every day language, but use …

Old Bohairic is not Sahidic, Old Bohairic refers to natural Bohairic pronounciation -not the dialect- that was used by Copts up till now in some rural areas, which was replaced by the Greco …

The Coptic script was widely used in Egypt from the late third century until the Arab conquest in the seventh century. It developed when the use of hieroglyphic and associated handwritten …

representing the Egyptian phonemes unknown to Greek, used irregularly in Pre-Coptic (see OLD COPTIC, and ALPHABETS, OLD COPTIC), and as a standardized set of five or six letters in …