

Jeremy Norman Collection of Images - Creative Commons
Figure 5 shoes a barefoot ancient person holding a papyrus roll. Behind him appears to be a scrinium or bucket-shaped chest for carrying papyrus rolls. Figure six shows examples of scrinia. Figure eight shows a student holding a papyrus roll open, presumably for his teacher. This image is probably not a very accurate depiction of the way a typical papyrus roll would have been opened for reading.