Three inkwells
(one bronze and two ceramic) recovered in the Qumran excavations
(two in the so-called scriptorium) may suggest that scrolls
were copied at the settlement.
A bronze
inkwell supposedly found at Qumran by Bedouin around 1950 was
sold by Kando to a Norwegian collector.
From The
Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Hershel Shanks