To keep stacked parchment containing writing from a particular piece together, the librarians had them bound together. Thus, several parchments were needed for a single writing piece. While a papyrus scroll can be as long as the author desires, parchment can only be as long as the animal from which it came was wide. If anything, it stacks better than it rolls. While parchment rolls nice enough, it doesn’t stay rolled. This forced the librarians at Pergamum to get creative, and so they turned to parchment onto which to write. The export of papyrus was limited, to prevent the rival library in Anatolia from expanding its selection of scrolls and thus compete with the prestige of the Library of Alexandria. Well, it just so happened Egypt had plenty, but apparently not for the Library of Pergamum. It was the Library of Pergamum, and they were most definitely in the market for papyrus paper. But across the Mediterranean in Anatolia, another library was growing in prestige, much to the dismay of the Ptolemies. This is a bit of a tangent, but without getting into too much detail, the earlier Ptolemies (certainly Ptolemy II & III) were quite aggressive in acquiring scrolls to increase the knowledge housed within the library. An idea given to him by his father, and to his father (possibly) by Demetrius of Phalerum. In Ptolemaic Egypt, when Ptolemy II Philadelphus had the Library of Alexandria built. Simply roll it up, and put it on a shelf, or in a container for safe keeping. These were large, meaty sedge each containing enough material to produce a scroll or two of papyrus paper I'd imagine.Īs we all know, papyrus provides for an excellent material upon which to write, and quite easy to store. These weren’t the emaciated papyrus plants we see growing in the gardens at the Getty Villa in California, or on sale at select Home Depot garden centers across the United States. In ancient times, papyrus grew wild along the Nile, with stalks up to 6 inches (~15 cm) in diameter. With that said, I wonder if perhaps the plant Doric columns might have been modeled after could have been the papyrus growing along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. Indeed, I should state here, that my hypothesis that I’m about to present here also lacks evidential support. Fennel, cumin, and caraway were all suggested as possible inspirations, but the paper’s conclusion admittedly lacked much evidential support. At the time the article was written, evidence was lacking to support this theory there were no known examples of woody plants with constantly fluted stems native to Greece. In it, the authors suggest the fluted columns of Greek architecture were inspired from plant stems. This evening I happened upon a 1936 article published in the journal Nature titled, Origin of Fluted Doric Columns. They are their own base entrenched where they stand as if they were the arms of Earth itself reaching for the heavens. Doric columns heave temple superstructures like barefoot behemoths standing directly atop the sacred temple floor itself. The Doric style is the one that appeals to me most.
JThere are three Classical orders of architecture: Corinthian, Ionic, and Doric, with Doric being the most ancient.
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