Wooden palette with Three Brushes (Primary Title)
Scribe's Palette (Alternate Title)
Unknown (Artist)
Ancient Egyptians wrote with brushes, not pens, that scribes made by cutting short, tender rush stems at an angle and then chewing the cut end to separate individual fibers. The brushes were kept in a palette that also held cakes of black and red pigment. To make his ink, the scribe added water to the pigment with his brush.
Dynasties 18-20
New Kingdom Period (Dynasty 18-19)
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
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