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Pictured is a sandstone statue of Hapi the scribe, the Administrator of the Amun temple, on display in the NMEC in Cairo, Egypt. He is seated, reading from a papyrus roll. It is from the New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, from 1295 through 1186 BC.