Writing and Education
Allie Chandler
- What were the variety of functions that scribes fulfilled in ancient Egyptian society?
- Egypt’s official record keepers
- collecting taxes
- administered laws
- Supervised government projects
- Helped keep official records of events
- Scribes considered upper class
2. How were scribes educated?
- By priests
- Learned the reading and writing of hieroglyphs
- Many learned simpler hieratic script
- Later, hieratic script evolved into simpler demotic script
- Used ink palette and brushes made from reeds
3. Why was school life for students not easy?
- school day very long
- Schoolmasters very strict
- Schoolmasters often treated students harshly
- spent many years doing same thing (copying hieroglyphic signs)
- 750 different hieroglyphs
4. What did students do once they successfully completed their training?
- Work alongside experienced scribes to learn more about record keeping
- Measured the rise of the Nile river
- Kept records of grain and food supply
- Kept census
- Traveled throughout cities and villages to keep track of tax records [image]http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=743 September 16, 2015.web[image] http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=4273 September 16, 2015.web