The ink cakes are missing but the wells have remnants of theĬheck out Melissa Thiringer's video about this palette on Youtube! The palette contains four reed pens, one which is spilt and may haveīlack ink on the top. Of these slots are cut from the top of the piece, but this method allows a seamless The reed pens was cut from the side and then filled with another piece of wood. Than other scribal palettes only extending 20.5 cm, or 8 inches long. This palette is unique in a variety of ways. That there was possible a range of people buried in the tomb. Amulets, a shabti, remains of pottery, garnet, faience,Ĭarnelian and amethyst jewelry, Ka statues, and four human skulls were found indicating Tomb was most likely looted in antiquity, so the remains of the tomb were scarce.Īn inscribed box fragment, pieces of mummy cartonnage, a wooden ear of a mummy, oneĬomplete model boat and the remains of three other sets were found in the tomb, along It had three rooms in the chapel and two shaft burial chambers. The tomb is located on the west slope of the hill on the eastern end Reisner in 1913 in a joint excavation with Harvard University and the Museum of FineĪrts in Boston.
Of Naga ed-Deir cemetery, across the Nile from Abydos. This scribal palette was found in the tomb S.F. So scribes were automatically at a higher status than most Egyptians.
Scribes were trained in hieratic, a cursiveįorm of the more monumental hieroglyphic script. Black ink was used for writing text and red To write, a scribe would chew on the end of the reed pen to create a paintbrush,ĭip it in water and rub the ink cake. Dried ink cakes were left in the ink wells and contained black and red These tools contain two inkwells and a slot to hold Scribal palettes like this are the main tool of an Egyptian scribe and would be used Date: Late Middle Kingdom, Mid-Dynasty 12 to Dynasties 13/17 (c.
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