This edited collection goes beyond the traditional boundaries of Egyptology to approach the study of ancient Egyptian scribal practices and their impact on scribal culture in new and innovative ways, examining varied media, textual and artistic genres, and time periods.

Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables List of Charts Notes on Contributors Notes on Editors Introduction  Margaret Geoga, Aurore Motte and Judith Jurjens Part1 Social Contexts 1 Investigating Scribal Practice and the Instruction of a Man to His Son at Tell Edfu (TEO131)  KathrynE. Bandy 2 A Bookish Burial: Kings, Scribes, and the Amduat Catalog  Jordan Miller 3 Identifying Scribes: Piay in the Colophon of P.Chester BeattyII  Judith Jurjens Part2 Education and Formation 4 Testing the Limits of the Sign: Writing Strategies for Advanced Scribes from the Educational Board BM EA194  Amr ElHawary 5 A Rare Coptic Legal Exercise: O.TT157 Inv.478/1  Rowida AboBakrMohamedFawzy Part3 Writing Mechanics 6 Scribal Practice in Heqanakht Letters: Analyzing the Epistolary Formula beyond the Script  Ahmed Osman 7 Variability of Scribal Practices in the Copy of Retrograde Texts during the 21st Dynasty (1069–945 BCE)  Émil Joubert 8 The Life and Scribes of a Late Period Medical Papyrus: Tracing the Composition, Use and Deterioration of Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.75+.86  Juliane Unger Part4 Scribal Materials 9 The Effect of the Reed Pen on Demotic Paleography in a Late-Ptolemaic Archive from Tebtunis  Leah Packard-Grams 10 Permanence of Intellectual Creation through the Materiality of Stone: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Book Culture  Chana Algarvio Part5 Transmission and Reception 11 Evidence of Diglossia and Bilingualism in Old Egyptian Mortuary Literature of the Middle Kingdom  RobertoAntonio DíazHernández 12 The Textual History of the Demotic “Prebend of Amun”  JacquelineE. Jay 13 Infographics in Museums: The Use of Graphic Visual Representations in the Mediation of Textual Content on Papyri  Susanne Töpfer Index