Writing tablet / wax tablet with bronze stylus

Writing like the Romans: wax tablets and styluses replaced paper and pencil from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Two wax tablets could be joined together with simple hinges or ribbons to form a wax tablet book (codex or diptych). The wax tablets were usually made of wood, which was coated with wax on one or both sides. The writing was scratched into the wax surface with a stylus. To erase the writing, the wax was smoothed out with the heated end of the stylus. This meant that the wax tablet could be used again and again.

Tablets made of light-coloured wood, covered with wax on one side and bound with leather lacing, with bronze stylus.

Dimensions: height approx. 20 cm, width (closed) 12 cm, width (open) 24 cm.