Round 20: Tossup 5
According to legend, only one of a group of fifty of these objects was spared from destruction by the “Turks” when it was given to Stefano Borgia and later acquired by Niels Iversen Schow (“sho”). Battiscombe Gunn made modern examples of these objects now exhibited in a national museum. These are the primary objects in the Rainer (“RYE-ner”) Collection, housed in Vienna. These objects are the topic of the first title subject of the journal ZPE. These objects are the less durable of two types of media treated by the Leiden Conventions, which set out use-cases of different brackets. In 2023, a project was announced to use 3D X-ray software on some of these objects from Herculaneum. The so-called “Passover Letter” is among many of these objects found at Elephantine. For 10 points, what objects were primarily used as a writing medium in ancient Egypt? ■END■
ANSWER: papyri [or papyrus scrolls; prompt on letters until read, or on scrolls or manuscripts, by asking “made of what material?”; reject “books”; reject “parchment” or “paper”]
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