/2010/07/15/the-egyptian-papyrus-book/ Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 /2010/07/15/the-egyptian-papyrus-book/comment-page-1/#comment-6194 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:26:25 +0000 /bloggers/2010/07/15/the-egyptian-papyrus-%e2%80%9cbook%e2%80%9d/#comment-6194 […] puzzle together. In order to make sense of the many small pieces at hand, we take advantage of the various examination techniques we have here in the lab. Detail of Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, #37.1777E, transmitted […]

]]> /2010/07/15/the-egyptian-papyrus-book/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:31:59 +0000 /bloggers/2010/07/15/the-egyptian-papyrus-%e2%80%9cbook%e2%80%9d/#comment-1563 The recto has semi-cursive glyphs that run vertically, then the verso has fully cursive glyphs that run horizontally, so it looks like there was probably a mechanical advantage to orienting the text perpendicular to the grain of the papyrus. Much practice and close inspection of photos in recent years says to me that a carefully trimmed reed was used in better examples of inked script, and not a frayed brush, and the way the kalamos interacts with the support affects the graphic character quite a bit. Also, it does appear from examples that sometimes a scribe would co-opt the verso of a scroll to perhaps simply save on expensive papyrus.

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