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Topic: Shapes of Hieratic numerals
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Hossam Aboulfotouh

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Shapes of Hieratic numerals
Posted: Jul 6, 2009 10:22 AM
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Is there any published book or paper that its author endeavored to answer the question, why the ancient Egyptian did choose the shapes that appear in this page as their hieratic numerals?

http://www.gap-system.org/~history/HistTopics/Egyptian_numerals.html

Hossam Aboulfotouh

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