2379444

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ~ SCRIBE #2379444

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ~ SCRIBE #2379444
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VERY RARE ITEM, NEVER FOUND SIMILAR.
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The Ancient Egyptian scribe (MdC transliteration zXA.w) was a person educated in the arts of writing (using both hieroglyphics and hieratic scripts, and from the second half of the first millennium BCE also the demotic script) and arithmetics.He was generally male,[4] belonged socially to what we would refer to as a middle class elite, and was employed in the bureaucratic administration of the pharaonic state, of its army, and of the temples.Sons of scribes were brought up in the same scribal tradition, sent to school and, upon entering the civil service, inherited their fathers' positions.

Much of what is known about ancient Egypt is due to the activities of its scribes. Monumental buildings were erected under their supervision, administrative and economic activities were documented by them, and tales from the mouths of Egypt's lower classes or from foreign lands survive thanks to scribes putting them in writing.

The profession, first associated with the goddess Seshat, became restricted to males in the later dynasties.

Scribes were also considered part of the royal court and did not have to pay tax or join the military. The scribal profession had companion professions, the painters and artisans who decorated tombs, buildings, furniture, statuary, and other relics with pictures and hieroglyphic text.
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<tr><td>Condition:good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1900 BC</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ~ SCRIBE</td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:Stone </td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:check description</td></tr>
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