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[ Home >> Bookstore >> History-Arts >> Papyrus-English ] Papyrus-English, authors Richard Parkinson & Stephen Quirke.Ordering Information.One of the most remarkable inventions of ancient Egypt was the making of 'paper' from the papyrus plant. As early as 3000 BC sheets and rolls of papyrus provided an ideal surface for writing with a reed pen and pigments of carbon and red ochre. Egyptian scribes used papyrus for legal and administrative records, letters about business and personal life, as well as for literary texts and compendia of knowledge. Religious hymns and litanies were recorded, as were the great collections of formulae to secure life after death, the Books of the Dead. The authors examine the methods of making and conserving papyrus, the various scripts written on it, the writing practices of the scribes, and the different uses of papyrus under the Pharaohs and their successors, the Ptolemies and the Roman Emperors. Egypt has preserved much Greek literature and administrative writings, and papyrus remained the writing material of the Mediterranean world until it was eclipsed in the ninth century AD by cloth paper from the orient, ending a tradition that had lasted four thousand years. Publisher British Museum Press, auther Richard Parkinson & Stephen Quirke, pages = 96, illustrations 65 b/w, 9 color, cover paper, ISBN 292765630. Sharm Bizness, URL: www.Sharm.biz, email: sales@sharm.biz |
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