Niv Allon is Assistant Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Hana Navratilova is an egyptologist and author of The Visitors' Graffiti of Dynasties XVIII and XIX in Abusir and Northern Saqqara (2007).

An accessible volume, with some illustration, and a must-read for those interested in the lives of the ancient Egyptian 'literati'.

• Credit listAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1. Introduction: Exploring the Social Figure of the Scribes2. Prologue - Writing Tools and Hands3. Counting Grain and Painting Palette: The Tomb of Paheri at Elka4. Senenmut: life at court5. Writing History in Djahi: Tjanuni, the Military Scribe6. Amenemhat: Anger and Graffiti7. Tutankhamun’s Palettes: No King is a Scribe8. Rising through the Ranks: Haremhab and The Case of a Scribal Palette9. Dedia, the Memory Maker, and His Workers10. Inena: The Elusive Copyist11. Good Scribe - Bad Scribe: Papyrus Anastasi I and The Battle of Scribes12. Djehutimose Tjaroy: Scribe in Times of ChangeEpilogueGlossaryChronologyReferencesIndex

Niv Allon is Assistant Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Hana Navratilova is an egyptologist and author of The Visitors' Graffiti of Dynasties XVIII and XIX in Abusir and Northern Saqqara (2007).

An accessible volume, with some illustration, and a must-read for those interested in the lives of the ancient Egyptian 'literati'.

• Credit listAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1. Introduction: Exploring the Social Figure of the Scribes2. Prologue - Writing Tools and Hands3. Counting Grain and Painting Palette: The Tomb of Paheri at Elka4. Senenmut: life at court5. Writing History in Djahi: Tjanuni, the Military Scribe6. Amenemhat: Anger and Graffiti7. Tutankhamun’s Palettes: No King is a Scribe8. Rising through the Ranks: Haremhab and The Case of a Scribal Palette9. Dedia, the Memory Maker, and His Workers10. Inena: The Elusive Copyist11. Good Scribe - Bad Scribe: Papyrus Anastasi I and The Battle of Scribes12. Djehutimose Tjaroy: Scribe in Times of ChangeEpilogueGlossaryChronologyReferencesIndex

Niv Allon is Assistant Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Hana Navratilova is an egyptologist and author of The Visitors' Graffiti of Dynasties XVIII and XIX in Abusir and Northern Saqqara (2007).

An accessible volume, with some illustration, and a must-read for those interested in the lives of the ancient Egyptian 'literati'.

• Credit listAcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1. Introduction: Exploring the Social Figure of the Scribes2. Prologue - Writing Tools and Hands3. Counting Grain and Painting Palette: The Tomb of Paheri at Elka4. Senenmut: life at court5. Writing History in Djahi: Tjanuni, the Military Scribe6. Amenemhat: Anger and Graffiti7. Tutankhamun’s Palettes: No King is a Scribe8. Rising through the Ranks: Haremhab and The Case of a Scribal Palette9. Dedia, the Memory Maker, and His Workers10. Inena: The Elusive Copyist11. Good Scribe - Bad Scribe: Papyrus Anastasi I and The Battle of Scribes12. Djehutimose Tjaroy: Scribe in Times of ChangeEpilogueGlossaryChronologyReferencesIndex