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“Part of the reason why artificial intelligence research was needed to allow the authors of this groundbreaking study to confirm the identification of two different scribes, is that the two hands are rather similar and may be compatible with a single scribe who changed his pen,” says Charlotte Hempel at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

“The authors also open up the fascinating question of whether this level of affinity between the scribal hands points to a stellar professional, able to ‘match’ another hand or whether we are dealing with a shared scribal training environment,” says Hempel.

I'll take a shared scribal training environment for $1,000, Alex.

[Wuli]

“I’ll take a shared scribal training environment for $1,000, Alex”

Me too.

And a question I have about that whole period is what was the social organization that supplied clerics and scribes a livelihood at most or at least their sustenance. Who “paid” for them, and how??