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# I made a point of going up to the famous Seated Scribe to photograph his eyes: lined with kohl, with pale blue, seemingly glass pupils that are in fact made of quartz, magnesite and an alloy of copper and arsenic
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/spetsialno-podoshel-k-znamenitomu-pistsu-kai-chtoby-sfotografirovat-ego-glaza-podvedennye-kaialom-i-s-golubymi-slovno-by-stekliannymi-zrachkami-na-samom-dele-sdelannymi-iz-kvartsa-magne/
- Published: 2025-10-08T13:11:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:28.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Art, Museums, Observations, Paris

The sculpture is believed to have been created between the Fourth (2543-2436 BC) and Fifth (2435-2306 BC) Dynasties, but the name we give the scribe is conventional, merely one of the versions; the owner of the tomb in which the sculpture was found in 1850 has so far not been established.

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