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.