Parchment
A skin prepared for writing on; so called from Pergamos (q.v.), where this was first done (2 Tim. 4:13).
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M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3rd edition (1897). Public domain; text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A nineteenth-century Protestant reference: its dates, archaeology and judgements reflect the scholarship of its time and are not Imago Dei's editorial position.