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Inside a Scribe School
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Real practice writing from a scribe school: hieratic signs on a flake of stone (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
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Inside a Scribe School
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The room smells of ink and cut reed. Here a scribe learned a script by making it, sign after sign, first on a cheap scrap and later on a clean sheet. Sit with that practice. We look at a sign, the pen, the sheet, and the patience of a trained hand.