Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of papyrus manuscripts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The study of papyri. See
papyrus , 2.
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- noun The study of ancient texts written on
papyrus
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Examples
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Even as a young man, when he was labouring to transform wilderness into BP profit, this future hammer of papyrology found time for opera, contemporary art and visits to artists 'lofts.
Why are we letting business big shots alter our society? Catherine Bennett 2010
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Mountford has retired from the show to study papyrology, and her place has been taken by Brady, the vice-chairman of West Ham football club, who first made her name when she became managing director of Birmingham FC at the age of 23.
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Current Epigraphy or What's New in Papyrology disseminate information on inscriptions and papyrology for experts in these disciplines.
Blogging Archaeology and the Archaeology of Blogging - Blogging Archaeology 2008
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Also you can play at papyrology, assembling the Rosetta jigsaw puzzle.
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Students of music, for their part, are almost never classicists with a strong grounding in such arcana as papyrology and epigraphy.
Notes from Antiquity 2002
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Students of music, for their part, are almost never classicists with a strong grounding in such arcana as papyrology and epigraphy.
Notes from Antiquity 2002
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As papyrology reveals the administrative system of the Ptolemaic Dynasty -- the Greek successors of Alexander who preceded the Caesars in the government of
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Thus scholars in papyrology just want to get at the raw sources; they would be annoyed by a Mac-like interface or silo.
Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog Dan Cohen 2010
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Proudly ambidextrous papyrology was furiously grandiloquent laceration.
MP3Board.com 2010
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The 56-year-old corporate lawyer quit to concentrate solely on her PhD in papyrology.
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