Quite an important one, and not all that related to the normal meaning of "scribe". The scribe was actually more of a lead surgeon or medical examiner, who examined the body and then made marks on the body where the incisions should be made to remove the organs and perform the embalming. One major difference of course is that this was all highly ritualized according to the traditions of Egyptian religion.
The actual cutting was considered ritually unclean, so the scribe would not participate in it. Only the cutter, who was thought of as something like a butcher or an executioner (an unclean but necessary profession), would actually make incisions. Once that was complete, the embalmer was responsible for filling the body with the natron that would sit inside it and dry it out over a long period, usually over a month.
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