Wooden Writing Tablets
Unknown
500–700 · Wood and wax · Medieval Art
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.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 500–700
- Medium
- Wood and wax
- Culture
- Coptic
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1914
