Papyrus roll-tied (hieroglyph)

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Papyrus Roll-
-Tied

m(dj)3t
in hieroglyphs
Painted Thutmosis III cartouches (temple relief), Deir el-Bahari.
(reads left-to-right)
The ancient Egyptian Papyrus roll-tied & sealed (hieroglyph) comes in the common horizontal, or a vertical form (shown in photo). It is juxtaposed against an open scroll, the Papyrus roll-open (hieroglyph),
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, without the "visible ties". The sealed form can also have a seal impressed (in clay) on the tie, for security, or authentication, (see notarization). Both styles of the papyrus roll, "-tied" or "-open", are an ideogram for "roll of papyrus", with a phonetic value of m(dj)3t.[1]

Some artistic versions of the papyrus roll show the laminations, or grid-work, the cross-hatching of the papyrus fibers, for example on Thutmosis III's cartouches (in photo, end of line 1 (reads left-to-right)).

Finely painted Egyptian hieroglyph sample.
Finely detailed limestone relief example of tied papyrus hieroglyph.


  • Example of tied papyrus roll, Karnak.
    (in top row, "standard" horizontal form)
    (Note also brazier (hieroglyph))
  • Untied version of papyrus roll from Palermo Stone fragment.
    (Note: also with no top appendage on scroll-(a subset variety of the "papyrus roll").-(a cattle accounting in the King Year Record)).

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, p. 237.
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