Untitled – caption: ‘Wax writing tablet’

ID: 019079

Title: Untitled.

Provenance:
2nd century?

Caption: Wax writing tablet

Notes: (Whole tablet) Wax diptycha or tablet, forming a schoolboy’s Greek exercise book. The tablet contains two lines, written neatly above as a model and then copied twice betwen the ruled lines; the first line, and possibly the second, are from the poet Menander. Holes bored for binding tablets together can be seen in the frame.
Originally published/produced in 2nd century?.

Language: Greek

Source identifier: Add. 34186, No.1

British Library Shelfmark: Add. 34186

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