Roman wax tablets
The club has several wax tablets that are always a big hit with the kids who love scribbling and doodling on them. Ours are timber, bound together by leather thongs, with bee's wax infill.
Homer refers to writing tablets, and Cicero's letters make passing reference to the use of cerae. Examples of wax-tablets have been preserved in waterlogged deposits in the Roman fort at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. Writing on the wax surface is performed with a pointed stylus. The other end is flattened to act as an eraser by scraping the wax flat again for a tabula rasa ("blank slate").
Homer refers to writing tablets, and Cicero's letters make passing reference to the use of cerae. Examples of wax-tablets have been preserved in waterlogged deposits in the Roman fort at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. Writing on the wax surface is performed with a pointed stylus. The other end is flattened to act as an eraser by scraping the wax flat again for a tabula rasa ("blank slate").
