Wax tablet
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A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in a
Wax tablet and a Roman stylus
Writing with stylus and folding wax tablet. painter, Douris, c. 500 BC (Berlin).
Roman scribe with his stylus and tablets on his tomb stele at Flavia Solva in Noricum
Stylus
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A stylus is a writing implement or tool for scribing or marking into softer materials. Different styluses were used to write in cuneiform by pressing into wet clay, and to scribe or carve into a wax t
Wax tablet
…Wall. Medieval wax tablet books are on display in several European museums. Writing on the wax surface was performed with a pointed instrument, a stylus. A straight-edged spatula-like implement (often placed on the opposite end of the stylus tip) would be used as an eraser. The modern expression of "a…
Four examples of medieval styluses for writing on wax tablets. Two are made of iron, one brass and one bone stylus.
Reproduction of a Roman-style wax tablet with three styluses
Styluses for different PDAs