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The Scribe:
Sesh, the Egyptian word for scribe, was both a title and an occupation. Scribes were schooled in writing hieroglyphic, hieratic, and (from about 700 BC) demotic scripts. Most scribes were men who passed their knowledge down to their sons, establishing a hereditary class of bureaucrats. Scribes were responsible for virtually every type of written communication in Egypt, from personal letters and wills to diplomatic communications and official proclamations.
Thoth, who was the patron deity of scribes, who also scribe to the gods. Thoth, who was the patron deity of scribes, was also scribe to the gods. Thoth was depicted as an ibis, a baboon, or a human with the head of an ibis. In the underworld, Thoth recorded the judgment of the dead after the deceased's heart was weighed against the feather of truth, ma'at. |