Abnormal Hieratic:
On other sherds, offerings were tallied in Abnormal Hieratic, a script that is not usually found in Dakhleh but was commonly used by Egyptian religious authorities at Thebes, the capital of Egypt during much of the New Kingdom and again during [700 – 600 B.C.]. [“Lord of the Oasis,” Benjamin Leonard, Archaeology (March/April 2020, print-only)]
It tickles me to wonder how an Egyptian of the period would react to the news that scientists thousands of years later would label their script as abnormal.
