I created this scroll back in 2009. I used a bamboo pen with India ink on papyrus. However, I believe this style of papyrus not to be papyrus at all, but rather banana leaves, due to some research on Youtube. It appears that papyrus that is translucent (that is, the papyrus that "looks" like papyrus to most partakers of popular culture) is actually banana leaves. For authentic papyrus, you must look for the darker, opaque sheets.
The image at left shows the first 3 stanzas of the scroll. The text was taken from 119th Psalm of the Bible. Since this Psalm was most likely not written by David, unlike many other Psalms, I used a script of Paleo-Hebrew that would align with the period of the Divided Kingdom of Israel. I chose the script from the Tel Dan Stele.
Psalm 119 is an acrostic Psalm - that is, each verse of any particular stanza will begin with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Since Hebrew reads from right to left, you would look at the right-most character to see this effect. As you can see, the first letters -
aleph,
bet, and
gimel - begin the first three stanzas. You can also see the beginning of the next three:
dalet,
he, and
vav.
Close-up of the text
The bamboo pen at work
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