This ink is very stable, does not fade, and does not deteriorate the papyrus below as some metallic inks can do.Īnother predominant color seen on the papyrus is red, derived from the earth pigment iron oxide. As well as keeping the carbon particles suspended in the water solution, the gum binder helps to keep the ink adhered to the papyrus surface. As a valuable source of timber in Egypt, its branches may have also been used as the source for the charcoal. To keep the particles from clumping together, the black is mixed with a binder, probably a plant gum from the Acacia tree family. The ink is made by burning organic materials such as wood or oil, and then pulverizing the material before mixing it with water. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1777E.
The black ink you see most often is used for writing the letters of the hieroglyphs or hieratic text and is almost always a carbon black ink.įragment from the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose. The two most common pigments seen on papyri are black and red. Today I’m going to take a look at the materials which were used to write on and illustrate papyri. My colleagues previously posted blogs on what exactly papyrus is, how it was made and formatted into a Book of the Dead, and our experiments making it ourselves in the Paper Conservation Lab. This is the third blog post on the Museum’s extraordinary New Kingdom papyrus, the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose.
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