AR / ITEM / 00100226
The Seated Scribe
Maker unknown
Exceptionally lifelike Old Kingdom sculpture of a seated scribe, discovered at Saqqara in 1850.
- Date
- 4th Dynasty, c. 2675–2545 BCE
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre
- Reference
- E 3023
Plate not recorded
No photograph with documented reuse rights is held for this record.
Record
- Medium
- Painted limestone with inlaid eyes
- Dimensions
- 53.7 × 44 × 35 cm
- Origin
- Egypt
- Owner
- French State
In the Tapestry
- Culture of origin
- Ancient EgyptA
- Culture of origin
- Old Kingdom of EgyptA
Provenance and history
4th Dynasty, c. 2675–2545 BCE
CreatedA
Sources
- A
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