What is Wax tablet?
A '''wax tablet''' is what the Roman schools used instead of paper. They used a [[stylus]] to write with. The wax [[melting|melted]] when warm, but was quite smooth when it [[wikt:set|set]]. Wax tablets could also be used for messages, but [[ink]] on wood was more permanent (see [[Vindolanda]]). The Romans also used ink on [[manuscript]]s, and could stitch the manuscripts together to make a [[codex]]. The earliest surviving example of a writing tablet dates to the later [[Bronze Age]], [[1400 BC]]. A [[boxwood]] writing tablet with an [[ivory]] [[hinge]] was found in 1986, in the remains of a shipwreck, the [[Uluburun Shipwreck]], near [[Kaş]], [[Turkey]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Payton |first= Robert |title= The Ulu Burun writing-board set |journal= Anatolian Studies |volume= 41 |pages= 99–106 |year= 1991|doi= 10.2307/3642932 |jstor= 3642932 |s2cid= 129794402 }}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{history-stub}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Ancient Rome]]