Explore: Wax Tablets

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

AD 79. The house is known both for its frescoes and for the trove of wax tablets discovered there in 1875, which gave scholars access to the records of

Scotland Tableting, a confectionery manufacturing process A type of chocolate bar Energy tablets Clay tablet, one of the earliest known writing mediums Wax tablet

characters in moist clay. Fire was then used to dry the tablets out. At Nineveh, over 20,000 tablets have been found, dating from the 7th century BCE; this

they were called orihon. The ancient Romans developed the form from wax tablets. The gradual replacement of the scroll by the codex has been called the

in cuneiform by pressing into wet clay, and to scribe or carve into a wax tablet. Very hard styluses are also used to engrave metal, and the slate and

6.29306°W / 54.96639; -6.29306 The Springmount Bog Tablets are a set of six wooden wax tablets dating to the late 7th or early 8th century that were

Sealing wax was used to close important documents in the Middle Ages. Wax tablets were used as writing surfaces. There were different types of wax in the

a batch of sprayed and dried tablets then tumbled for a few minutes to coat them. [citation needed] In 1890 carnauba wax was patented as a replacement

Iron Age, especially for writing in cuneiform. Wax tablets (pieces of wood covered in a layer of wax) were used in classical antiquity and throughout