1 Jan 1250 Jahr v. Chr. - Wax Tablet

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First appearing in Ancient Greece around 1250 CE, the wax tablet was an easily-erasable format useful for short-term record keeping and note-taking. They were small and portable, and sometimes were bound together in a manner that resembled the later codex, making them an early format that afforded the user random access (rather than linear access, as in a scroll) to the information they contained (Galbraith, 2020).

About the image: These Byzantine wooden writing tablets were created circa 500-700 CE (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

SOURCE

Galbraith, S. K. (2020). A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet. Libraries Unlimited.

IMAGE
Wooden Writing Tablets. (6th-8th century BCE). [Wood and wax]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/473393.

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