The eyebrows are marked with fine lines of dark organic paint. The back side of the crystal was covered with a layer of organic material which at the same time gives the blue colour to the iris and serves as an adhesive.
They are modeled in rich detail out of pieces of red-veined white magnesite which were elaborately inlaid with pieces of polished truncated rock crystal.
Special attention was devoted to the eyes of the sculpture. Hands, fingers, and fingernails of the sculpture are delicately modeled. Its realistic features stand in contrast to perhaps more rigid and somewhat less detailed body. Perhaps the most striking part aspect of the figure is its face. The figure is dressed in a white kilt stretched to its knees. This painted limestone sculpture represents a man in a seated position, presumably a scribe. It is a painted limestone statue, the eyes inlaid with rock crystal, magnesite (magnesium carbonate), copper-arsenic alloy, and nipples made of wood. The sculpture was discovered at Saqqara, north of the alley of sphinxes leading to the Serapeum of Saqqara, in 1850 and dated to the period of the Old Kingdom, from either the 5th Dynasty, c. It represents a figure of a seated scribe at work. The sculpture of the Seated Scribe or Squatting Scribe is a famous work of ancient Egyptian art.
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