Wooden Writing Tablets
Unknown Artist
The recessed areas of these tablets were filled with wax and employed for writing and record keeping. A stylus, or pointed wooden pen, would have been used to write in the wax. Joined pairs of tablets such as these were made in many materials, including ivory.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1914
500-700
Wood and wax
2.0 x 11.0 in
14.2.4a-d
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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