Vocabulary Word
Word: papyrus
Definition: ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
Definition: ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
Sentences Containing 'papyrus'
Faria then drew forth from his hiding place three or four rolls of linen, laid one over the other, like folds of papyrus.
Secondly, none of the High Priest Shoshenq C's own children—the priest Osorkon whose funerary papyrus, P. Denon C, is located in the Russian National Library in St.
Narmer is shown on palettes wearing the double crown, composed of the lotus flower representing Upper Egypt and the papyrus reed representing Lower Egypt - a sign of the unified rule of both parts of Egypt which was followed by all succeeding rulers.
This publication is entitled "Das Buch vom Fayum: zum religiösen Eigenverständnis einer ägyptischen Landschaft."
The Boulaq/Hood/Amherst Papyrus.
The Boulaq/Hood/Amherst papyrus is named for the three modern collectors who once held its pieces after its division in 1859.
Two major parts of this papyrus are in American museum collections – the Morgan Library and Museum and the Walters Art Museum – and are being reunited in a traveling exhibition set to open at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore on October 6, 2013.
Some scholars have suggested that the text was intended for Sobek himself, as no human could unroll the entire papyrus to see and interpret the fully illustrated map, perhaps suggesting that it was not meant for human eyes at all, but rather those of the divine.
Papyrus 63 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by formula_163, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek.
It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John.
Papyrus received its early Greek name (byblos, byblinos) from its being exported to the Aegean through Byblos, and the Greek words "biblion", plural "biblia", and ultimately the word "Bible" ("the (papyrus) book") are traced to that name.
It was included with the Gospel of John in the fragmentary early Greek and Akhmimic Coptic papyrus designated Papyrus 6.
This work, written in Greek, was translated into at least three languages in ancient times: a Latin translation from the 2nd or 3rd century was found in an 11th-century manuscript in the seminary library of Namur, Belgium, and published by Germain Morin in 1894; a Syriac manuscript, now at Cambridge University, was found by Robert Lubbock Bensly in 1876, and translated by him into English in 1899; and a Coptic translation has survived in two papyrus copies, one published by C. Schmidt in 1908 and the other by F. Rösch in 1910.
Common in papyrus reed around small lakes.
Horus possesses papyrus darts to destroy the evil that attacks him, and also has he ability to turn into a hawk to fly over certain enemies and to help him complete his mission.
Most were written on parchment and some on papyrus.
Papyrus 84 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by formula_184, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek.
It is a papyrus manuscript of the four Gospels.
Impact.
The Egyptians supplied the Greeks with mostly grain but also linen and papyrus while the Greeks bartered mostly silver but also timber, olive oil and wine.
Yet another, fragmentary "Hellenica" found in papyrus at Oxyrhynchus, is known as "Hellenica Oxyrhynchia;" it covered events from 411 to the year of the Battle of Cnidus, 395/4 BCE.
One such document was the Ipuwer Papyrus, which he felt reported events similar to several of the Biblical plagues.
Since conventional Egyptology dated the Ipuwer Papyrus much earlier than either the Biblical date for the Exodus (ca.
Velikovsky searched for common mention of events within literary records, and in the Ipuwer papyrus he believed he had found a contemporary Egyptian account of the Plagues of Egypt.
Maathorneferure is mentioned on a papyrus found at Gurob.
The partial text on the papyrus states: "[...]
Papyrus 57 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum formula_157, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek.
It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains only Acts 4:36-5:2.8-10.
Papyrus 73 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by formula_173, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek.
It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew.
On the left Khnumhotep stands on papyrus boat.
The shadowy halls, whose columns were often shaped to imitate plants such as lotus or papyrus, were symbolic of the mythological marsh that surrounded the primeval mound at the time of creation.
Papyrus 55 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by formula_155, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek.
The topography of the division is characterized by flat-topped hills of uniform height divided by shallow valleys forming papyrus swamps.
Only a small proportion of the division vegetation can be considered as natural. The vegetation of the hills which was originally shrubs and forests has been modified to a greater extent as a result of clearing to give way for settlement (high income residential neighborhoods on the hills) and the papyrus swamps have been encroached on, in the valleys, by illegal developers.
Ramses, meanwhile, finds a papyrus which "he" suspects to be of historic importance, and an assistant who is not all he seems.
In ancient civilizations, books were often in the form of papyrus or parchment scrolls, which contained about the same amount of text as a typical chapter in a modern book.