Papyri

Word PAPYRI
Character 6
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Pronunciations /pəˈpaɪˌɹaɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Papyri"

What do we mean by papyri?

(usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley.

(usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.

A scroll or document written on papyrus.

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The word "papyri" in example sentences

In this case, there are the words of a modern historian, who has studied Egypt all his life, not in Berlin or London, like some other historians, but in Egypt, deciphering the inscriptions of the oldest sarcophagi and papyri, that is to say, the words of Henry ❋ Unknown (1861)

They showed us the process of deciphering the papyri, which is very ingenious. ❋ Charles Greville (1829)

The harmless word "papyri" had wrought that remarkable change; could it be, I wondered, that a cache of these objects had been found? ❋ Peters, Elizabeth (1985)

In the second place, a museum is a store-house for historical documents such as papyri and ostraca, and in this respect it is simply to be regarded as a kind of public library, capable of unlimited and perfectly legitimate expansion. ❋ Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (N/A)

Anyway, if people would just refer to the Greek magical papyri, we could save a lot of money around here on employment agencies, help wanted ads and headhunter fees. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Chester Beatty papyri Greek—contains large portions of the Bible, compiled around AD 200. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

Later he steals papyri and kidnaps a girl for a harem. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ancient Egyptian language was written and spoken for two-thirds of recorded human history, and a great volume of economic and legal records are preserved in papyri and inscriptions, including some spectacular documents that go back to 2000 B.C. ❋ Joseph Manning (2011)

Together, its sections form a colossal frieze or scroll that the artist likened to Egyptian papyri. ❋ Unknown (2011)

•Previously unpublished biblical and classical papyri, including surviving texts dating to the time of the now-lost Library of Alexandria. ❋ Unknown (2011)

All I will say here is that the papyri have both less and more to tell us than this argument lets on. ❋ Charles E. Hill (2010)

Of the Greek literary papyri that have been edited, a full half are scraps of Homer, a further quarter are from works familiar from the manuscript tradition and the remainder are previously unknown. ❋ M_francis (2009)

The papyri from Egypt and epigraphical evidence show that this was not the concern of most pagan Greeks. ❋ M_francis (2009)

The surviving Greek magical papyri, a collection of spells and rituals that were suppressed by the early Christians, include two that relate to acquiring an assistant. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

And the only reason I might know this is because I devoured (not literally; paper yum!) the book that goes behind some of the mysteries of the Da Vinci code and this was mentioned as a possible reason for his celibacy .. ancient magicians would write voces magicae (words of power) on pieces of papyri with ink and then consume the pieces, believing that they would absorb the power of the words … ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, this does not tell us what people were actually reading and we can get a better idea of this from the papyri retrieved from the sands of Egypt, especially at Oxyrynchus. ❋ M_francis (2009)

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