. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . The sheets were put togetherin the order of their quality, the best sheet on theoutside of the roll and the worst sheets in the were thus arranged, not for the purpose ofconcealing the bad material, but that the strongestsheets should be placed where there was most wearand tear. Besides, if the entire roll should not beneeded, the poorest sheets could be better sparedand easily cut off. The papyrus roll, as a rule,was written on one side only, and was fastenedto a wooden rod or roller, around which it The rolls we
. Printing and writing materials: their evolution . The sheets were put togetherin the order of their quality, the best sheet on theoutside of the roll and the worst sheets in the were thus arranged, not for the purpose ofconcealing the bad material, but that the strongestsheets should be placed where there was most wearand tear. Besides, if the entire roll should not beneeded, the poorest sheets could be better sparedand easily cut off. The papyrus roll, as a rule,was written on one side only, and was fastenedto a wooden rod or roller, around which it The rolls were of various lengths. A fairly full copy of the ritual of the dead, the whole ora part of which was buried with every person ofconsequence from the eighteenth dynasty^ to theRoman period, required a roll fifteen inches wideand from eighty to ninety feet long. The Harrispapyrus, in the British Museum, is the longestknown, having a length of one hundred and thirty-three feet. The most ancient of the papyri now ex- 1 From about 1587-1328 B. o. rolls. SELECTION FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD—TIKIX (HIEROGLYPHIC) PAPYRUS. [From Davis. By permission of G. P. Putnams Sons.] PAPYRUS 136 tant is the Prisse papyrus, so called from the nameof its former owner, and is preserved at Paris. Itis supposed to date from about 2400 b. c, orearher, and contains a work composed during thereign of a king of the fifth dynasty.^ The pap3rriof Egypt have usually been found in tombs,or in the hands, or wrapped with the bodies, ofmimimies. Besides the ritual of the dead, whichis most frequently the subject, and religious rolls,there are civil and literary documents, in thehieratic style of writing, and the demotic orenchorial papyri, relating generally to sales ofproperty. The discovery of papyri containing works of Discoveries of classical Greek authors, begun about the middle the nineteenth century, has resulted in a greatgain to literature. There were brought to lightfour or five quite complet
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