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 antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. Cicero's letters make passing reference to the use of cerae, and some examples of wax-tablets have been preserved in waterlogged deposits in the Roman fort at Vindolanda on Hadrian's 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 clean slate" equates to the Latin expression "tabula rasa".
Writing with stylus and folding wax tablet. painter, Douris, c. 500 BC (Berlin).
Wax tablets were used for a variety of purposes, from taking down students' or secretaries' notes to recording business accounts. Early forms of shorthand were used too.
A waxtablet 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...
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originates from the Roman tabula, a wax-covered tablet used for notes, which was blanked (rasa) by heating the wax and then smoothing it. This roughly...
Sealing wax was used to close important documents in the Middle Ages. Waxtablets were used as writing surfaces. There were different types of wax in the...
water-powered paper mills produced large and cheap quantities of paper and the waxtablet and stylus disappeared completely from daily life. Styluses are still...
the wax had set, a metal stylus would be used to scratch letters into the wax, showing a lighter colour against the darker wax. These waxtablets could...
AD 79. The house is known both for its frescoes and for the trove of waxtablets discovered there in 1875, which gave scholars access to the records of...
(794–1185) were made of paper. The Ancient Romans developed the form from waxtablets. The gradual replacement of the scroll by the codex has been called the...
Diptychs were also used to inscribe the names of the saints. Although the waxtablets themselves are no longer used, the term is still used in the Eastern...
20th century. The Ars Almadel instructs the magician on how to create a waxtablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying. The Ars...
Omens, and other cultural aspects of Aztec people. Romans used wax-coated wooden tablets or pugillares upon which they could write and erase by using a...
known as cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The wax is formed into scales by eight wax-producing glands in the abdominal...
1851. It was covered with pictures, including a "treasurer" holding a waxtablet in one hand while manipulating counters on a table with the other. The...
material." The Ancient Greeks used wax-coated tablets to write on with a stylus, and to erase the writing by smoothing the wax surface and writing again. This...
writing, drawing, or scrapbooking. The earliest form of notebook was the waxtablet, which was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in classical...
one, listed as N B368 M was written on the waxtablet and was supposed to be hidden under the layer of wax with some trivial writing. It was a top-secret...
-nɑːˈuː-/; Portuguese: carnaúba [kaʁnaˈubɐ]), also called Brazil wax and palm wax, is a wax of the leaves of the carnauba palm Copernicia prunifera (synonym:...
similar to a modern wine rack. Court records and notes were written on waxtablets, while important documents were written on papyrus or parchment. The...
this era, some written documents were also on wood and others on waxtablets.) Tablets were separated according to their contents and placed in different...
Iron Age, especially for writing in cuneiform. Waxtablets (pieces of wood covered in a layer of wax) were used in classical antiquity and throughout...
The earliest known Etruscan abecedarium is inscribed on the frame of a waxtablet in ivory, measuring 8.8 cm × 5 cm (3.5 in × 2 in), found at Marsiliana...
writing it directly on the wooden backing of a waxtablet before applying its beeswax surface. Waxtablets were in common use then as reusable writing surfaces...
the Tablets of the Law (also Tablets of Stone, Stone Tablets, or Tablets of Testimony; Biblical Hebrew: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית lūḥōt habbǝrīt "tablets of the...
It is a palimpsest consisting of three bound wooden tablets containing four pages filled with wax, on which its former owner wrote down dozens, probably...
Arithmetic, whereas the oldest surviving Greek multiplication table is on a waxtablet dated to the 1st century AD and currently housed in the British Museum...
6.29306°W / 54.96639; -6.29306 The Springmount Bog Tablets are a set of six wooden waxtablets dating to the late 7th or early 8th century that were...
of Hildegard of Bingen receiving a vision from God and sketching on a waxtablet. The concept of God speaking through someone inspired Kristin Hayter's...
translators use the word "notebook", which is anachronistic (see codex and waxtablet). Concerning Seneca's discipline of self-knowledge, Foucault writes: "In...
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