Hieroglyphic [adjective]

Not for twenty necklaces and a whole file of hieroglyphic passes would she doubt Frank any more.

Moreover, the inscriptions on hieroglyphic rocks in these abandoned cities evidently refer to Amazons.

Of the Nahua hieroglyphic system and its capabilities enough has been said elsewhere.

We have first the Aztec monuments and hieroglyphic scrolls, for the most part undeciphered.

Pythagoras was the last of the Greek sages who made use of hieroglyphic writings and transmitted his doctrine in ancient language.

In the Egyptian hieroglyphic texts the gods speak in an oracular manner, and their consultation by the Pharaohs is mentioned.

In the Hittite system of hieroglyphic writing, the boot with upturned end occupies a prominent place.

These are entirely conventional, and are, in fact, a sort of recognized hieroglyphic representing the idea of a lotus.

The stele is shown by Lepsius in his Auswahl, Plate 9, and is the earliest example of a hieroglyphic inscription known.

But Egyptian native learning was decaying, and the knowledge of hieroglyphic writing was dying out.