Papyrus roll-tied
# Papyrus roll-tied

Papyrus Roll- -Tied m(dj)3t :

Egyptian hieroglyphs :

The ancient Egyptian Papyrus roll-tied and 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.

Some artistic versions of the papyrus roll show the laminations, or grid-work, the cross-hatching of the papyrus fibers, for example on Thutmose III's cartouches.

## Gallery

* Painted Thutmosis III cartouches (temple relief), Deir el-Bahari. (end of line 1, reads left-to-right)
* Finely painted Egyptian hieroglyph sample
* Finely detailed limestone relief example of tied papyrus hieroglyph
* Relief
* Detail of Hare and water-ripple quadrat (hieroglyph block)
* Vertical text, hare hieroglyph at beginning
* Partially missing lunette of a stela; Finely executed in shallow, incised-bas relief
* Example of tied papyrus roll, Karnak. (in top row, "standard" horizontal form) (Note also brazier (hieroglyph))
* Untied version of papyrus roll from Palermo Stone fragment. (Note: also with "no top appendage" on scroll (a subset variety of the "papyrus roll").
