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Lädt ... Papyrus (Egyptian Bookshelf) (1995)von Richard Parkinson
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"One of the most remarkable inventions of ancient Egypt was the making of "paper" from the papyrus plant. As early as 3000 B.C. sheets and rolls of papyrus provided an ideal surface for writing with a reed pen and pigments of carbon and red ocher. Egyptian scribes used papyrus for legal and administrative records, letters about business and personal life, as well as for literary texts and compendia of knowledge." "Religious hymns and litanies were recorded, as were the great collections of formulae to secure life after death, the Books of the Dead. The authors examine the methods of making and conserving papyrus, the various scripts written on it, the writing practices of the scribes, and the different uses of papyrus under the Pharaohs and their successors, the Ptolemies and the Roman emperors. Egypt has preserved much Greek literature and administrative writings, and papyrus remained the writing material of the Mediterranean world until it was eclipsed in the ninth century A.D. by cloth paper from the Orient, ending a tradition that had lasted four thousand years."--BOOK JACKET. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Read this book and you'll be able to decode when the colours black and red are used on Egyptian papyri (red was used for "highlighting phrases and marking distinctions" but was otherwise regarded as a very inauspicious colour--villains' names are written in red). And you'll meet Thoth, the ibis-headed god of knowledge, associated with the moon as lunar movements was the key to calculating time in ancient Egypt.
Is it a book for the layman? No. Is it a book for all lovers of Egyptian and ancient history? Absolutely. As well as anyone curious about the world's earliest writing medium (paper, invented by the Chinese, only replaced papyrus after the 8th century). I would recommend it for any adult interested in mummies, Egyptology, manuscripts, pens, ostraca, ancient gods, etc.... (