E.GA.6116.1943: A limestone ostracon with seven lines of
hieratic text may include a mention of the qnb.t-councU.
Can the proposed distinction of the sacramental priesthood into "diaconal" and "
hieratic," i.e., a quantitative rather than qualitative distinction, help the Orthodox Church to restore her traditional ancient practice and ordain deaconesses?
The unremitting attention to detail in the papal portrait alongside the more
hieratic image of the king highlights the versatility of Velazquez's portraiture.
Beneath what we thought we knew, he reveals a
hieratic landscape.
Unusually adept at description, the authors manage to paint everything -- not just characters, but also their backdrops -- in terms both literal and metaphoric: "He had the profile of a wading bird, as though he were an ancient
hieratic sculpture carved in dry boxwood and lost among the shop's odds and ends." And where one might expect the scenery to be focused on the lushness of the countryside, the reader is instead introduced to the changes the region has undergone: "The modernist garden housing development was a chaotic landscape, with blocks of eroded buildings emerging from sickly vegetation." And it turns out that changes like this are decidedly germane to the story.
The relevant description is case 45, which has various subheadings (rubrics) in red
hieratic: TITLE: Instructions concerning bulging tumours of the breast.
I hit the American rituals Nilihist,
hieratic amateur Reich-amateurs' initial hit Unit: Hit America, hit Israel
Both pieces have recourse to spoken utterances (a significant sign of tiredness?) as well as
hieratic choral harmonisations, sonorous and wellbalanced from Ex Cathedra.
Purdy, who spoke fluent Spanish, was also big fan of Garcia Lorca, and professed to be inspired by the writer's theory of "duende" and "deep song." He preferred writing longhand on tablets and later typing out his revisions; as a hobby he enjoyed drawing fanciful heads in full-face or profile, which are a combination of Cocteau's faun heads and wide-eyed
hieratic masks.
Das Buch Le Grand, with its echoes of Christian soteriology, Napoleon as a figure of
hieratic wholeness in a fragmented and epigonal age.
Six dancers spring to the bright, sparkling rhythms of British composer Graham Fitkin's score, echoing the angular, almost
hieratic arm gestures that color many of Goh's 36 works.
Of the 212 sherds, 175 bear identifiable texts: 125 Greek, 42 Demotic Egyptian, 6 Arabic, one Coptic, and one
Hieratic sherd, the oldest of the group, possibly a draft of a letter or a school exercise, dating to the 2nd millennium BC.
The preacher--appropriately larger than the others according to the
hieratic scale--rings a church bell as the congregation proceeds around the grave site.
