Wax tablet 14x9cm, Tabula cerata Didius, black writing tablet, Roman medieval reenactment
Wax tablets - Roman writing tablets
Who wants to wonder on the written paths of Roman Antiquity, takes the ancient wax tablet with pencil! On the waxen writing page out of wood and wax nothing is for eternity. The Roman wax tablet in latin cera or as well tabula mostly was rectangular, with real beeswax covered tablet out of wood: the ancient wax tablet.
The ancient wax tablet was used until the Middle Ages and it was written on it with a pencil (lat. stilus) by scratching the letters into the wax cover.
How did it occur with the Romans and the ancient wax tablets?
In the Roman time for official correspondence as well as for private use the wax tablet was used as writing material.
- black wax tablet out of massive beech 9x14cm
- the writing tablet comes inside a soft cotton bag
- roman ABC page included as writing pattern
- with instruction