Title: Papyrus in classical antiquity /
Authors: Lewis, Naphtali.
Date: 1974
Publisher: Clarendon Press,
Physical description: vi, 152 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: T
Contents: The plant (Habitats and transplants ; Variety of uses) -- The paper (The manufacturing process and its products ; Some technical terms ; The spread of papyrus in the ancient world ; Miscellaneous uses) -- The paper industry (Cultivating and harvesting the plant ; Manufacture and sale ; Taxation, unresolved problems).
Notes: Rev. ed. of the author's thesis, 1934.
Subject headings (LCSH): Papyrus (The plant)