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Papyraceous fetus
Papyraceous fetus (fetus papyraceus, fetus compressus): a dead twin mummified and flattened like parchment, retained in utero after early second-trimester demise, occurring in about 1 in 12,000 pregnancies, with risks to the surviving co-twin.
Papyrus
Papyrus is a writing material made from the pith of the sedge Cyperus papyrus, invented by the ancient Egyptians and used across Egypt and the Mediterranean for about 4,000 years.
Papyrus
Papyrus, the ancient Egyptian writing material made from Cyperus papyrus pith, used from about 2900 BC to the eleventh century AD; manufacture, decline against parchment and paper, and light-induced aging.
Papyrus (Undertale)
Papyrus (パピルス) is a skeleton character and second boss in Toby Fox's 2015 RPG Undertale, younger brother of Sans, named after the Papyrus font; originally called Times New Roman and inspired by OFF's Dedan.
Papyrus Ambras
Papyrus Ambras is a hieratic Egyptian papyrus of the Twentieth Dynasty, dated to about 1085 BC, recording a trial for tomb robbery and kept in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Papyrus Amherst 63
Papyrus Amherst 63 is a 4th-century BC papyrus roll, found near Thebes, whose Aramaic texts are written in Egyptian demotic script; it preserves three Israelite psalms and is held in New York and Ann Arbor.
Papyrus Anastasi I
Papyrus Anastasi I, also known as Anastasi I, is a satirical model letter in Late Egyptian from the reign of Ramesses II, held in the British Museum.
Papyrus Anastasi II
Papyrus Anastasi II is a Ramesside Egyptian papyrus scroll in the British Museum, dated to about 1200 BC, containing hymns and didactic texts of the Late-Egyptian Miscellanies.
Papyrus Anastasi III
Papyrus Anastasi III is a Ramesside scribal manuscript of the Late Egyptian Miscellanies type, written in Hieratic and held in the British Museum as EA 10246.
Papyrus Anastasi IV
Papyrus Anastasi IV is a Ramesside scribal model-letter manuscript of the Late Egyptian Miscellanies, written around 1200 BC and held in the British Museum as EA 10249.
Papyrus Anastasi V
Papyrus Anastasi V is a 19th Dynasty hieratic papyrus in the British Museum, a scribal miscellany best known for its report of two runaway slaves, dated to Seti II.
Papyrus Anastasi VI
Papyrus Anastasi VI is a hieratic papyrus in the British Museum whose famous passage records Shasu of Edom passing a Delta frontier fort to water their herds at Pithom.
Papyrus Anastasi VII
Papyrus Anastasi VII is a late 19th Dynasty Egyptian papyrus in the British Museum, preserving the end of the Teaching of Khety, or "Satire on Trades."
Papyrus Anastasi VIII
Papyrus Anastasi VIII is a Ramesside hieratic papyrus in the British Museum, carrying a formal letter from the scribe Ramose to Djehutiemhab, dated to the reign of Ramesses II.
Papyrus Bingen 45
Papyrus Bingen 45, often called the Cleopatra papyrus, is a Greek papyrus from Ptolemaic Egypt recording a grant of tax privileges issued under Cleopatra VII and dated to 33 BC.
Papyrus BM 10052
Papyrus BM 10052, also known as British Museum Papyrus 10052, is a hieratic papyrus recording the opening stages of the trial of the Theban Necropolis tomb robbers.
Papyrus BM 10053
Papyrus BM 10053, formerly Harris A, is a hieratic Egyptian official report on the robbery of Queen Isis's tomb by eight workmen of Deir el-Medina under Ramesses IX.
Papyrus BM 10068
Papyrus BM 10068, also known as British Museum Papyrus 10068, is a hieratic papyrus in the British Museum recording Theban tomb-robbery investigations under Ramesses IX and XI.
Papyrus Bologna 1086
Papyrus Bologna 1086 is a Ramesside letter papyrus in hieratic, held in Bologna, recording a message from the scribe Bak-en-Imen to the priest Ra-mesu in the reign of Sethos II.
Papyrus Boulaq 18
Papyrus Boulaq 18, also known as Papyrus Bulaq 18, is a hieratic administrative papyrus from Thebes recording an 11-day royal court visit in the 13th Dynasty.
Papyrus Brooklyn 35.1446
Papyrus Brooklyn 35.1446 is a late Middle Kingdom papyrus in the Brooklyn Museum, best known for its list of the household servants of the Theban noblewoman Senebtisi.
Papyrus Butehamun
Papyrus Butehamun is a group of hieratic letters between Theban necropolis scribe Butehamun and his father Djehutymes, written under Ramesses XI and held in Turin.
Papyrus Chester Beatty I
Papyrus Chester Beatty I is a Twentieth Dynasty papyrus in Dublin holding the sole copy of the Tale of Horus and Seth and ancient Egyptian love songs.
Papyrus Chester Beatty IV
Papyrus Chester Beatty IV is a Ramesside Egyptian literary papyrus in the British Museum, from Deir el-Medina, with hymns to Amun-Re and a student's miscellany praising writers.
Papyrus Lansing
Papyrus Lansing (pBM EA 9994) is a late 20th Dynasty hieratic papyrus in the British Museum, a scribal miscellany written by the scribe Nebmare-nakht for his pupil Wenemdiamun.
Papyrus Leopold II–Amherst
Papyrus Leopold II–Amherst is a hieratic Egyptian legal document recording an official investigation into tomb robbery in the Theban necropolis in Year 16 of Ramesses IX, centering on the quarryman Amenpnufer's confession.
Papyrus Mayer A
Papyrus Mayer A is a hieratic legal papyrus held at National Museums Liverpool, recording the trial of tomb robbers at Thebes in years 19 and 20 of Ramesses XI.
Papyrus of Ani
The Papyrus of Ani, also known as the Book of the Dead of Ani, is a funerary papyrus made for the scribe Ani about 1250 BC, now in the British Museum.
Papyrus Pushkin 127
Papyrus Pushkin 127, also Papyrus Golénishchev 127, is an Egyptian hieratic papyrus of the early Third Intermediate Period in Moscow's Pushkin Museum, known for the Tale of Woe.
Papyrus Salt 124
Papyrus Salt 124, also called Salt Papyrus 124, is an early 20th Dynasty Egyptian letter in which the workman Amennakht denounces the chief workman Paneb to the vizier Hori.