#papyri

[theblvcksupreme]

[detroitlib]

Papyrus fragment from the temple library of Tebtunis in the Fayum. The hieratic text is a composition intended to protect pharoah; on the verso is a Greek tax list. Portion of a roll formerly owned by Rev. W.F. Good and later by William Randolph Hearst.

Rare Book Collection, Detroit Public Library

[midnightfries]

The great Papyri!

[meganwhalenturner]

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale de Napoli is pretty spectucular.

It's a 16th Century building originally put up to house the Royal Calvary. It's definitely big enough to have held elephants, too. It was an all purpose museum but as more and more collections were sent to more specialized museums what was left at MANN was archeology.

The wooden cabinet above hold a piece of the scrolls from the House of Papyri in Herculaneum. This is one of the papyri damaged over the years as archeologists tried to unroll them.

More scrolls are housed at the The Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III where they are experimenting with using computer imaging to read the scrolls without unrolling them.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Literary Papyri: Cyril of Alexandria, On Adoration and Worship in Spirit and in Truth.

Date: A.D. 550-614

Period: Byzantine

Place of origin: El-Deir (Fayoum, Egypt) (?)

[howlsofbloodhounds]

If I remember correctly, didn't nightmare have a legion of papyrus clones that he made?? What happened to them?

I heard something about that but I don’t know if it was canon or not, or if it’s still canon. Not sure why he ditched them (if he did), but i remember hearing around that it was because he thought papyri were idiots or something? Probably not true.

[luna-is-lost]

A new (very tired) friend

Left- Pyrus (GooTale) - @luna-purpleart / @luna-purple454

Right- Soot (UnderWelcomed) - luna-is-lost

Thank you, Luna-Purple for the opportunity :)

[yetanotherdrawer]

Good news: Finally, after all this time, finally figured out a way to draw Papyrus that I liked!

This way captures the spirits of talking sprites: Expression is emphasized in eye sockets and brows (plus some helpful hints). Mouth may change slightly with certain emotions but the way most emotion is expressed is through the upper half of skull.

Bad News: Will be working on messing with Sans’ next.