A plant growing along the Nile in Egypt during biblical times It was used as writing material Papyrus scrolls were made by cutting and pressing sections of the papyri plant together at right angles They typical maximum length of a scroll was about 35 feet The scribe, when using papyrus, would often use the natural horizontal fibers of the papyrus plant as guidelines He would take a blunt instrument and score horizontal lines and then score two or more vertical lines as margins for the edge of the sheet or to define columns on it We get the word "paper" from this word Many of the biblical manuscripts were on papyrus
The Egyptians used this aquatic plant to create a writing sheet by peeling apart the plant's tissue-thin layers and stacking them in overlapping, crosshatched pieces to form a sheet Despite giving us the word "paper," papyrus is not a true paper
A water reed used to make a kind of paper It was the main writing material used in Egypt Papyrus was joined together and rolled up to make scrolls which to the Egyptian was their version of a book
A papyrus is an ancient document that is written on papyrus. Writing material of ancient times and the plant from which it comes, Cyperus papyrus (sedge family), also called paper plant. This grasslike aquatic plant has woody, bluntly triangular stems and grows to about 15 ft (4.6 m) high in quietly flowing water up to 3 ft (90 cm) deep. The ancient Egyptians used the stem of the plant to make sails, cloth, mats, cords, and principally paper. Paper made from papyrus was the chief writing material in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In the 8th-9th century AD, other plant fibres replaced papyrus in the manufacture of paper. The plant is now often used as a pool ornamental in warm areas or in conservatories
an Egyptian plant; a paper-like writing material made from it; cheaper, but not as durable; see esp P52 and P75 Parchment (Vellum) - animal skins used for writing; much more durable, but also much more expensive; see Vaticanus
Cyperus papyrus is a reed found in the Nile River, that could be cut, dried and flattened to provide a writing surface Any unevenness in width could be smoothed down, when the paper was cut, and rolled into scrolls
Papyrus plant is tall sedge or reed of the Nile valley in Egypt used by ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians as writing material Handmade paper is prepared from the pith or central plant tissue of papyrus plant
a document written on papyrus tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans
a paper-like material made from strips of pith, part of the papyrus plant, which have been soaked Sheets are formed when strips are laid down in overlapping rows with a second layer laid down perpendicular to the first The sheet is then placed in a press to dry
the writing surface of Egyptian scribes, made from the pith of papyrus stalks separated into strips that were flattened and placed side by side, slightly overlapping On top of this layer, another layer of strips was placed at right angles to the first The surface was then repeatedly pounded to make it smooth The plant juices released in the pounding caused the strips to adhere to each other permanently without the aid of glue In art, images of papyrus plants symbolized the world, which arose from the primeval waters at the time of creation The plant was also the heraldic symbol of Lower Egypt