Scribe equipment (hieroglyph)

The ancient Egyptian Scribe equipment hieroglyph 𓏞 (Gardiner no. Y3), or its reversed form 𓏟 (Gardiner no. Y4), portrays the equipment of the scribe. Numerous scribes used the hieroglyph in stating their name, either on papyrus documents, but especially on statuary or tomb reliefs.

The hieroglyph depicts the 3 major components of a scribe's equipment:

1. tube case – for holding writing-reeds
2. leather bag – for holding colored inks (the canonical colors, black and red, mixed with water and gum)
3. wood scribal palette – with mixing pools; (not always made from wood)