Egyptian Scribes
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Uploaded by JamesHenryBreasted on Oct 6, 2010
Foy Scalf, Ph.D. candidate in Egyptology at the University of Chicago and Head of the Oriental Institute Research Archives, talks about who Egyptian scribes were and what their work was like.
This video was made for the Oriental Institute Museum special exhibit "Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East" which runs from September 28, 2010 through March 6, 2011.
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When we look at finer examples of hieratic and semi-cursive, even the work of beginners on certain writing boards, we can see that not every scribe wrote with a "brush" as described by Breasted and Ibscher. When the script is high contrast and the thick and thin lines are at right angles to each other, on close inspection, it is easy enough for a calligrapher or cartoonist to see that the rush was often carved, not frayed. Specialist scribes evidently had more sophisticated writing equipment.
RamessesIX 1 year ago