The ancient Egyptian Papyrus roll-open hieroglyph comes in the common horizontal, or a vertical form. It is juxtaposed against a "closed" scroll, the Papyrus roll-tied hieroglyph, with the visible ties. Both styles of the "papyrus roll", "-tied" or "-open", are a logogram for "roll of papyrus", with a phonetic value of "m(dj)3t".
Some artistic versions of the "papyrus roll" show the laminations, or grid-work, the cross-hatching of the papyrus fibers, for example on Thutmose III's cartouches.