article_snippet: Sekhemka was a high level scribe who lived in the Old Kingdom sometime between 2,700BC and 2,2250BC - the period of Egyptian history when the pyramids of Giza were built.
article_snippet: In a country that was mainly illiterate, Sekhemka ability to read and write means Sekhemka would have been a person of high status with access to high offices.
article_snippet: But as the economy improved, officials like Sekhemka who held high-ranking positions could afford to pay craftsmen to create likenessess of officials like Sekhemka who held high-ranking positions for officials like Sekhemka who held high-ranking positions tomb.
article_snippet: officials like Sekhemka who held high-ranking positions served two purposes: to act as a record of the way the person looked, and to ensure that the offerings the person desired for the person survival in the afterlife - listed on the papyrus carried in the statue's hands - were made after the person death.