Statue of the ancient Egyptian writer.

The writers had a fundamental role in intellectual and cultural life in ancient Egypt

They were considered the main founders of the ancient civilization of Egypt.

The ancient Egyptian meaning of the term "writer" comes in the context of planning, which is (drawing) and creation, which is (creativity),

It doesn’t mean that he paints with a brush just because he is writing, or he just reads.

The main task of the clerks was more administrative, meaning that they were responsible for writing the administrative letter among kings or registering cattle.

Their role in the modern state continued in many different forms.

The clerical priests in the House of Life had their own creative ability, which enabled them to edit and revise a very large number of religious theological, ritual, medical and magical texts in which they are incantations.

In the era of the Old Kingdom, they could write new literary texts and spread very quickly.

The first in the old state was that the profession was limited to a specific class, and it was not limited to any one who remained a friendly writer, and we knew that it might be a difficult and large profession in its time compared to the modern state and compared to now and we knew a lot of teaching and learning teachings, literary texts, stories, and all this through scribes

The contributions of the scribes to society during the Ramesside period were greatly appreciated by the royal house and among the younger generations among the scribes.

As M. Hakim (Ptah Hatep) said:

"The voice of people perishes, but the voice of the writer keeps forever."

We will talk about the statue of the Egyptian Museum, which is very well known and famous for its seat and eye, which looks like an enlightenment

(Statue of the ancient Egyptian writer)

Discovered in Saqqara near the pyramid of User K

Back to the fifth family

But the owner's name is not known

Made of a single block of limestone

The statue shows us in the sitting position of a squatting session, at the foot of the papyrus roll and pen fade, but it occurred, but his handheld the pen very clearly, and he wore a wig to the head and covered his ear.

The statue's face, Pine, is natural and its features are very realistic

And we notice that the Messenger and the Eye are watching or hearing someone as if he is listening to someone who dictates what he writes.

The eye is inlaid with crystal crystals and quartz stone, so the white of the eye appears and copper was used to making this inner eyelid.

The writer here was carefully borrowed and held around his neck, but unfortunately, they fell and kept their mark only.

We showed the ability and accuracy of the artist in that he shows us the details of the hands, chest, and knee handprints until his fingernails, and the artist had a very large precision that allowed him to empty the parts between the body of the statue and what is between the arms of the arm so that we can detail the details more accurately and show more real.