Scribes were the intellectuals of Ancient Egypt who were in the higher rank along with priests ad educated dignitaries. Scribes occupied the uppers rungs of the social ladder to the very top.
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Scribes were those who gave orders, checked results, took records, granted or witheld permission. Egyptians turned to them for all kinds of help such as reading, writing letters, or creating a marriage contract.
The Scribes’ duties were to keep record of:
Building supplies, Tools and craftsmen’s requisites, work attendance, wages paid, number of bags of grain harvested, size of herds, amounts of grain and materials, inventory of funerary gifts and goods, Kinds and quantities of any seized goods, as well as inventories of the daily offerings and sacrifices from the funerary priests in honour of the deceased.
