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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
Plant of the sedge family (Cyperus papyrus). It was widespread in the uncultivated, swampy areas of the ancient
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
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A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.)
A plant which flourished near the delta of the *Nile in *Egypt (Job 8: 11), used for making
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
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World Encyclopedia
Stout, perennial water plant, native to
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
Aquatic plant growing primarily in *Egypt, used to make a *writing-surface material. Papyrus was replaced by *parchment in
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Papyrus, a writing material, was made from cyperus papyrus, a multi-purpose plant that grew in the Babylon region of
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
[Lat. Papyrus cyperus].
Plant of the sedge family. It was widespread in the uncultivated, swampy areas of the ancient
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Encyclopedia of Africa
The papyrus plant grows about one to three meters (about three to ten feet) high and has a woody, aromatic,
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
The writing material named after the plant from which it is made, papyrus, was manufactured as early as the first
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John Tait
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
As a writing material, papyrus was in use in Egypt from at least 3000
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Leslie S. B. MacCoull
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
the principal writing material of the ancient world and late antiquity, made from strips of the pith of an Egyptian reed plant (...
