Writing & Education
Ashley Grubstein
What do scribes do?
- (Official record keepers
- (Administer laws
- (Collect taxes
- (Supervise government projects
- (Travel with court to keep an official record of events
What skills are needed to be a scribe?
- ( Read and write hieroglyphs
- Took a while for students to master
- Used to write everything from contracts to joke
- Also need to read and write heiratics
What was school like?
○ Just after sunrise to sunset
○ Teachers were Strict
○ Students treated harshly
○ if not willing to learn scolded and physically beaten
- Before students got papyrus they got clay tablets
- Only successful students got papyrus after many years
- Papyrus is plant reeds stuck together and flattened
What did scribes record?
○ Tax records
○ Records of grain and food supply to prevent starvation
○ Measured rise of Nile River
○ Traveled with military expeditions
- Animal records
(images) http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/virtual_library/ramesses_hittite.html . September 16, 2015. Web.
(images) http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/special/virtual_library/tuthmosis_karnak.html . September 16, 2015. Web.