Preferred label

Papyrus (materials)                

Alternative label

Scope note

A writing substrate made from strips of the pith of the papyrus plant, which have been soaked, laid in an overlapping pattern, layered, pressed, and dried.  

Parent concept

Substrate       

uh-linked-data/concept/529

Related concept                                                     

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/365