Hieratic
Author(s): Fredrik Hagen (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: August 14, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 118 pages
- ISBN-10: 1009673610
- ISBN-13: 9781009673617
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