![]() ![]() ARMINIUS MANUAL MANUAL1337.24 (for full references see the LatinNow Manual (link above). Willi after Schaltenbrand Obrecht 2012, 349, 395, Gostenčnik 1996, 111 and Fingerlin 1998, no. 2: Examples of Roman iron (top) and bone styli with typical erasers (not to scale), redrawn by A. ![]() ![]() But while writing up my thoughts, I realised that I needed to get my hand on a replica and try myself.įig. This remark led me to reconsider in some detail just how wax tablets were erased, and to a series of delightfully nerdy Skype sessions with graduate student and stylus specialist Alessia Colombo (a short article on what we found out is due to be published in Instrumentum later this year). Instead, she resorted to removing a thin curl of wax, ‘like a parmesan shaving’, as she put it. During the Touring Exhibition she had discovered that flattening was almost impossible with the kind of erasers commonly found on metal styli, which are shaped like small spatulas ( Fig. More than a year later, when Janie was working on the production of the first volume of our Manual of Roman Everyday Writing (open access here: bit.ly/MREW2), she stumbled over a passage I had written that described how the eraser ends of styli were used to ‘flatten’ the wax where corrections to the text were to be made. Our senior scientist Janie Masséglia had designed a number of wonderful outreach activities for the tour and we let school children have a go at inscribing wax tablet replicas with styli. In autumn 2019, LatinNow travelled Europe with the Touring Exhibition ‘Voces Populi’. 1: Roy’s replica tablets arrive at the office of LatinNow’s scribe. ![]()
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