Scroll

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An early form of the book. Although a sometimes unwieldy container for writing, scrolls have persisted for thousands of years.

Egyptian scrolls

Men Splitting Papyrus
This facsimile painting copies a detail from a scene of men harvesting and working papyrus in the tomb of Puyemre (TT 39) at Thebes. It is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Egyptian scrolls were made from papyrus. [1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Capua, Rebecca. “Papyrus-Making in Egypt.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pyma/hd_pyma.htm (March 2015)
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