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Scribe. Portrait of the Scribe Mir 'Abd Allah Katib in the Company of a Youth Burnishing Paper (Mughal Empire, ca. 1602) A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. [1][2] The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts ...
List of ancient Egyptian scribes. The Seated Scribe, 2613–2494 BC; painted limestone and inlaid quartz. Louvre. This is a list of Egyptian scribes, almost exclusively from the ancient Egyptian periods. The hieroglyph used to signify the scribe, to write, and "writings", etc., is Gardiner sign Y3, from the category of: 'writings, games, & music'.
The sculpture of the Seated Scribe or Squatting Scribe is a famous work of ancient Egyptian art.It represents a figure of a seated scribe at work. The sculpture was discovered at Saqqara, north of the alley of sphinxes leading to the Serapeum of Saqqara, in 1850, and dated to the period of the Old Kingdom, from either the 5th Dynasty, c. 2450–2325 BCE or the 4th Dynasty, 2620–2500 BCE.
Ahmes. Ahmes (Ancient Egyptian: jê„áž„-ms “, a common Egyptian name also transliterated Ahmose) was an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived towards the end of the Fifteenth Dynasty (and of the Second Intermediate Period) and the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (and of the New Kingdom). He transcribed the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a work ...
Seshat (Ancient Egyptian: đđđ, romanized: sšêŁt, lit. 'Female Scribe', under various spellings [2]) was the ancient Egyptian goddess of writing, wisdom, and knowledge. She was the daughter of Thoth. She was seen as a scribe and record keeper; her name means "female scribe". [1] She is credited with inventing writing.
Ancient Egyptian scribes consistently avoided leaving large areas of blank space in their writing and might add additional phonetic complements or sometimes even invert the order of signs if this would result in a more aesthetically pleasing appearance (good scribes attended to the artistic, and even religious, aspects of the hieroglyphs, and ...
Extensive bureaucracies arose in the ancient Near East [81] and China [82] [page needed] [83] [page needed] which relied on a literate class of scribes and bureaucrats. In the Ancient Near East this was carried out through the formation of scribal schools, [84] [page needed] while in China this led to a series of written imperial examinations ...
History of literatureby era. Ancient Egyptian literature was written with the Egyptian language from ancient Egypt 's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. It represents the oldest corpus of Egyptian literature. Along with Sumerian literature, it is considered the world's earliest literature.