A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used... 8 KB (1,049 words) - 21:36, 13 March 2024 |
Scotland Tableting, a confectionery manufacturing process A type of chocolate bar Energy tablets Clay tablet, one of the earliest known writing mediums Wax tablet... 2 KB (301 words) - 04:07, 22 November 2023 |
a wax tablet. Tabula rasa is a Latin phrase often translated as clean slate in English and originates from the Roman tabula, a wax-covered tablet used... 23 KB (2,947 words) - 14:40, 11 February 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,861 words) - 18:37, 3 March 2024 |
Lucius Caecilius Iucundus (section Wax tablets) 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... 21 KB (2,148 words) - 12:21, 26 February 2024 |
the wax had set, a metal stylus would be used to scratch letters into the wax, showing a lighter colour against the darker wax. These wax tablets could... 10 KB (1,266 words) - 07:17, 28 March 2024 |
20th century. The Ars Almadel instructs the magician on how to create a wax tablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying. The Ars... 21 KB (2,474 words) - 02:57, 11 March 2024 |
History of books (section Wax tablets) Omens, and other cultural aspects of Aztec people. Romans used wax-coated wooden tablets or pugillares upon which they could write and erase by using a... 87 KB (10,527 words) - 00:40, 14 March 2024 |
tablet and then covered with wax. The Spartans did not know what to do with the seemingly blank wax tablet, until Gorgo advised them to clear the wax... 13 KB (1,513 words) - 20:33, 19 March 2024 |
similar to a modern wine rack. Court records and notes were written on wax tablets, while important documents were written on papyrus or parchment. The... 62 KB (8,104 words) - 15:18, 20 March 2024 |
Library of Ashurbanipal (redirect from Sumerian Tablets) this era, some written documents were also on wood and others on wax tablets.) Tablets were separated according to their contents and placed in different... 18 KB (2,082 words) - 19:29, 27 March 2024 |
1851. It was covered with pictures, including a "treasurer" holding a wax tablet in one hand while manipulating counters on a table with the other. The... 51 KB (5,989 words) - 19:26, 22 March 2024 |
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... 61 KB (9,165 words) - 16:04, 25 March 2024 |
discovers that the exhibits, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact, the tablet of Akhmenrah, come to life at night. 20th Century Fox released the film... 35 KB (3,189 words) - 00:05, 24 March 2024 |
one, listed as N B368 M was written on the wax tablet and was supposed to be hidden under the layer of wax with some trivial writing. It was a top-secret... 10 KB (524 words) - 12:57, 2 April 2023 |
The earliest known Etruscan abecedarium is inscribed on the frame of a wax tablet in ivory, measuring 8.8 cm × 5 cm (3.5 in × 2 in), found at Marsiliana... 20 KB (980 words) - 03:21, 23 March 2024 |
the Tablets of the Law (also Tablets of Stone, Stone Tablets, or Tablets of Testimony; Biblical Hebrew: לוּחֹת הַבְּרִית lûḥōt habbǝrît "tablets of the... 10 KB (1,196 words) - 18:07, 28 March 2024 |
Illumination from Liber Scivias, showing Hildegard of Bingen receiving a vision, dictating to her scribe and sketching on a wax tablet.... 11 KB (1,060 words) - 03:39, 2 January 2024 |
the old Roman city. Verulamium is mentioned in a Latin inscription on a wax tablet, dated to AD 62, discovered in London during the Bloomberg excavations... 12 KB (1,492 words) - 13:44, 8 March 2024 |