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Papyrus

Nature

Papyrus as a plant people have named and used. Written marsh, scroll plant, Nile page — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Egyptian religion

  • Papyrus appears in Egyptian religion.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris treats papyrus among Egyptian marsh plants and writing materials of that religion’s world. A named plant in that treatise, not papyrus-of-ani as the named Book of the Dead manuscript and not papyrus-roll as Pliny’s book form.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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  • Papyrus is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists papyrus (papyros) among plant materials with drug and burn-dressing uses. A named papyrus in that handbook, not Plutarch’s Egyptian marsh speech or papyrus-roll book form already walked.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Paper is historically related to Papyrus.

    Pliny’s Natural History describes papyrus sheets as the classical writing support that later paper traditions receive and replace. A named paper historically related to papyrus, not papyrus as the reed plant alone and not parchment as skin.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Roman religion

  • Papyrus appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats papyrus among Egyptian paper-plants and writing materials known to Rome. A named papyrus in that encyclopedia, not the Plutarch Egyptian religion seat already walked and not papyrus-roll as the object already walked.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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