[Ads-l] Old Egyptian writing

[Stephen Goranson]

London Review of Books 47/8 May 8 reviewed
The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids by P. Tallet and M. Lehner.
https://archive.is/OPUYt
It wrote: “Merer dipped his reed pen in ink.”
No.
This was before split-nib reed pens and inkwells, but in a time of rush brushes and palettes.
See:
William John Tait, Rush and Brush: the Pens of Egyptian and Greek Scribes, Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Papyrology, 1988, vol. 2, 477-481, and
Willy Clarysse, Egyptian Scribes Writing Greek, Chronique d’Égypt, 68 (1993) 186-201.
A. Lucas, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries, 4th ed. 1963, 362-365.




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