The scribe here appears to have had a necklace around his neck, but it appears to have been lost over time. With the latter statue, currently at the Louvre Museum, the artist utilized crystal with quartz stone to delineate the whites of the eye, as well as of copper in order to illustrate the khol surrounding the eyes. This statue has been created with the same technique used to make another famous scribe statue known as “The Seated Scribe. We notice the direction of the head and the eyes slightly towards the right, thus seeming as if he is listening to someone dictating what he meant to be writing. The face of the statue appears natural and its features are serious and realistic, as if it is attentive to something dictated to him. ![]() The statue represents the Egyptian writer Fu, who is sitting wearing a wig. This statue has been created out of a single block of limestone, which was a popular type of stone that used to come from the area of al-Maasara today, Tora and Jabal Mokattam in Cairo. The statue of the Egyptian scribe or writer sitting cross-legged goes back to the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty, and is one of the original pieces and was found in the Saqqara Necropolis. Modern Reproduction, the same as the original one Comes with a certificate of verification issued by the Egyptian supreme council of Antiquities. ![]() The Egyptian Scribe Museum Reproduction with Certificate
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