![]() ![]() ![]() Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1777E. The black ink you see most often is used for writing the letters of the hieroglyphs or hieratic text and is almost always a carbon black ink.įragment from the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose. The two most common pigments seen on papyri are black and red. Today I’m going to take a look at the materials which were used to write on and illustrate papyri. My colleagues previously posted blogs on what exactly papyrus is, how it was made and formatted into a Book of the Dead, and our experiments making it ourselves in the Paper Conservation Lab. ![]() This is the third blog post on the Museum’s extraordinary New Kingdom papyrus, the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose. ![]()
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