The pith of the plant is sliced into strips, which are soaked and pressed together to form sheets - very conveniently, the organic fibres of papyrus were meshed together without needing glue ...

You can see three types of marginal signs in the left margin of the second column. One indicates change of speaker; the second indicates overlaps between the papyrus text and the tradition of ...

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The pith of the plant is sliced into strips, which are soaked and pressed together to form sheets - very conveniently, the organic fibres of papyrus were meshed together without needing glue ...