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

Thus, in societies like that of the Phoenicians, there was no need for a scribal class, since even normal merchants could become literate.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by purchase a large six column tablet nearly complete, carrying originally, according to the scribal note, 240 lines of text.

From The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform by Langdon, Stephen