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An accounts tablet for a basketry workshop by an unnamed scribe, ca. 2040 BC. From Ur, in Sumerian cuneiform. This is a list of Near Eastern scribes.Besides the common clay tablet used in Mesopotamia, cylinder seals, stelas, reliefs, etc. are other commonly used mediums of the Near Eastern scribes.
A scriptorium (/ s k r ɪ p ˈ t ɔːr i ə m / ⓘ) [1] was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the copying and illuminating of manuscripts by scribes. [2] [3] The term has perhaps been over-used—only some monasteries had special rooms set aside for scribes. Often they worked in the monastery library or in their own rooms.
Buddhist scribes believed that, “The act of copying them could bring a scribe closer to perfection and earn him merit.” [30] Rather later, Hindu texts were written, although the most sacred, especially the Vedas , were not written down until much later , and were learnt by heart by the priestly Brahmins .
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.
[16] Emma Smith, Joseph Smith's wife and scribe for part of the Book of Mormon, made a clear distinction between the two in an 1870 letter, "The first that my husband translated, was translated by the use of the Urim, and Thummim [i.e. spectacles or interpreters], and that was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone ...
A Torah scroll contains the text of the five books of Moses handwritten by a scribe in Hebrew. He estimated that a complete Torah scroll would take about 40 times longer to create and would also ...
Scribal abbreviations can be found in epigraphy, sacred and legal manuscripts, written in Latin or in a vernacular tongue (but less frequently and with fewer abbreviations), either calligraphically or not. In epigraphy, common abbreviations were comprehended in two observed classes: The abbreviation of a word to its initial letter;
Among the Classic Mayas, the howler monkey god was a major deity of the arts—including music—and a patron of the artisans, especially of the scribes and sculptors. [1] As such, his sphere of influence overlapped with that of the Tonsured Maize God. The monkey patrons—there are often two of them—have been depicted on classical vases in ...