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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mena7: [QB] Egyptian Scribes [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/GD-EG-Louxor-126.JPG/800px-GD-EG-Louxor-126.JPG[/IMG] Amenhotep son of Hapu [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Dersenedj.jpg/450px-Dersenedj.jpg[/IMG] Scribe Dersenedj [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_064.jpg/399px-%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_064.jpg[/IMG] Egyptian scribe [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Egypte_louvre_227_statue.jpg/381px-Egypte_louvre_227_statue.jpg[/IMG] Egyptian scribe [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/GD-EG-Caire-Mus%C3%A9e037.JPG/800px-GD-EG-Caire-Mus%C3%A9e037.JPG[/IMG] Egyptian scribe [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/GD-EG-Alex-Mus%C3%A9eNat056.JPG/500px-GD-EG-Alex-Mus%C3%A9eNat056.JPG[/IMG] Egyptian Scribe [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Seated_scribe_with_papyrus_scroll_Louvre.JPG/364px-Seated_scribe_with_papyrus_scroll_Louvre.JPG[/IMG] Egyptian Scribe [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/RPM_%C3%84gypten_039.jpg/414px-RPM_%C3%84gypten_039.jpg[/IMG] Egyptian Sribe Scribes A scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession and helps the city keep track of its records. The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing. The work could involve copying books, including sacred texts, or secretarial and administrative duties, such as taking of dictation and the keeping of business, judicial and, historical records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities. Later the profession developed into public servants, journalists, accountants, typists, and lawyers. In societies with low literacy rates, street-corner letter-writers (and readers) may still be found providing a service Egyptian Scribes or Sesh The Ancient Egyptian scribe, or sesh,[1] 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 the demotic script, used as shorthand and for commerce) and dena (arithmetics).[2][3] Sons of scribes were brought up in the same scribal tradition, sent to school and, upon entering the civil service, inherited their fathers' positions.[4] Much of what is known about ancient Egypt is due to the activities of its scribes and the officials. Monumental buildings were erected under their supervision,[5] 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.[6] Scribes were also considered part of the royal court and did not have to pay the day ray say or join the military. The scribal profession had companion professions, the painters and artisans who decorated reliefs and other relics with scenes, personages, or hieroglyphic text. A scribe was exempt from the heavy manual labor required of the lower classes, or corvee labor. The hieroglyph used to signify the scribe, to write, and "writings", etc., is Gardiner sign Y3, Y3 from the category of: 'writings, & music'. The hieroglyph contains the scribe's ink-mixing palette, a vertical case to hold writing-reeds, and a leather pouch to hold the colored ink blocks, mostly black and red. Thoth was a god associated by the Ancient Egyptians with the invention of writing, being the scribe of the gods, and holding knowledge of scientific and moral laws Palawan Scribes (Philippine) Antonio Pigafetta, in his writings, described the cultivated fields of the native people populating the Palawan Islands. He also mentioned that these people use weapons consisting of blowpipes, spears and bronze ombard. During his stay in the area, he witnessed for the first time cockfighting and fist-fighting. He also discovered that the natives had their own system of writing consisting of 13 consonants and 3 vowels, and they had a dialect of 18 syllables. He further wrote that in Palawan, the local King had 10 scribes who wrote down the King's dictation on leaves of plants [/QB][/QUOTE]
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