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Definition of Papyris

Papyri
Papyrus Pa*py"rus, n.; pl. Papyri. [L., fr. Gr. ?. See Paper.] 1. (Bot.) A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick. 2. The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed. 3. A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.

Meaning of Papyris from wikipedia

- The Villa of the Papyri (Italian: Villa dei Papiri, also known as Villa dei Pisoni and in early excavation records as the Villa Suburbana) was an ancient...
- dismay of Pyradonis, Cleopatra's customary architect. He and his secretary Papyris discuss the druid Getafix (Panoramix in the original French), whose potion...
- The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyrus scrolls discovered in the 18th century in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum. They had been carbonized...
- The Gr**** Magical Papyri (Latin: Papyri Graecae Magicae, abbreviated PGM) is the name given by scholars to a body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, written...
- of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus (plural: papyri or papyruses) can also refer to a do****ent written on sheets of such material...
- Oxyrhynchus The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of m****cripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard...
- The Amherst papyri are a collection of ancient papyri now mostly kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. They were acquired by John Pierpont...
- Papyri and Ostraca consist of thousands of do****ents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Aswan, which yielded hundreds of papyri and...
- Magical papyri may refer to: Coptic magical papyri Gr**** magical papyri Jewish magical papyri This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with...
- The Dramatic Ramesseum Papyrus (also known simply as the Ramesseum Papyrus) is the oldest known surviving illustrated papyrus roll. It contains a ceremonial...