I think it is important to realize how precious paper (papyrus) was in those days, it was non existent outside the middle east, writing in most of the world was restricted to Velum, carefully cured and scraped lamb skins, almost no one could afford to write anything, papyrus was far more delicate than paper and in a almost wholly illiterate world would be used sparingly, probably written on both diagonally and horizontally to 'recycle' it for day to day records as this is how paper was used in europe
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