💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Papyri"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| oxyrhynchusnoun | (ichthyology) a fish with a pointed snout |
| parchmentsnoun | Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing. |
| manuscriptsnoun | A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced. |
| codicesnoun | A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll. |
| incunabulanoun | Early printed books. |
| hieroglyphsnoun | An element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system. |
| stelesnoun | (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela. |
| ugariticnoun | The Northwest Semitic language of the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria. Extinct since 1100 B.C.E., it was written in cuneiform. |
| antiquitynoun | Ancient times; faraway history; former ages. |
| faiencenoun | A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material. |
| cuneiformnoun | An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets. |
| potsherdsnoun | (often archaeology) A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site. |
| epigraphicnoun | Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy. |
| engravingsnoun | engraving |
| amphoranoun | (chiefly historical) A large vessel, especially a thin-necked clay vat used in ancient Greece and Rome for storing and transporting wine and oil. |
| cartouchesnoun | (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people. |
| scrollsnoun | (computing) The act of scrolling |
| genizahnoun | (Jewish law) A depository where sacred Hebrew books or other sacred items that by Jewish law cannot be disposed of are kept before they can be properly buried in a cemetery. |
| artifactsnoun | An object made or shaped by human hand or labor. |
| septuagintnoun | (biblical) An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. |
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