scribal

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The installation also features tools from scribal workshops and information about the restoration of “Ankhmerwer.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

He said the scribal quality was “surprisingly sloppy” compared to its counterpart.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

"Second, the scribal tradition represented in these 11 fragments is diverse, expressive, their technology for paint preparation and calligraphic fluidity is impressive – this was a well-established tradition of writing and art," Hurst added.

From Reuters • Apr. 14, 2022

Fortunately for the Egyptian state, however, the backbone of day-to-day politics was the enormous bureaucracy staffed by the scribal class, a class that survived the entire period covered in this chapter.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I voted for the scribal occupation, and had recourse to the influence of Superintendent-general Knipstrow to obtain a position at the chancellery of Wolgast.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew