Papyrus roll-tied (hieroglyph)

Papyrus Roll- -Tied m(dj)3t in hieroglyphs

Painted Thutmosis III cartouches (temple relief), Deir el-Bahari.
(reads left-to-right)

The ancient Egyptian Papyrus roll-tied & sealed (hieroglyph) comes in the common horizontal, or a vertical form (shown in photo). It is juxtaposed against an open scroll, the Papyrus roll-open (hieroglyph), , without the "visible ties". The sealed form can also have a seal impressed (in clay) on the tie, for security, or authentication, (see notarization). Both styles of the papyrus roll, "-tied" or "-open", are an ideogram for "roll of papyrus", with a phonetic value of m(dj)3t.^[1]

Some artistic versions of the papyrus roll show the laminations, or grid-work, the cross-hatching of the papyrus fibers, for example on Thutmosis III's cartouches (in photo, end of line 1 (reads left-to-right)).

Finely painted Egyptian hieroglyph sample.

Finely detailed limestone relief example of tied papyrus hieroglyph.

See also

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• Gardiner's Sign List#Y. Writings, Games, and Music

References

• Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)
• Budge, (1920), 1978. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes, 1314 pp. and cliv-(154) pp.) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)