A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 211
Fig. 237. -Spelling Exebcise(No. G05). EDUCATION, WITH WRITING AND PAINTING. L99 employed was a pointed implement, called by the Romans a stilus.An example in ivory, here figured (No. 609 : fig. 239), was found ina tomb of the fifth century B.C. at Eretria in Euboea. The broadflat end was used for… … Fig. 238.—Tablet with Multiplication Table and ReadingExeecisb (No. 606). illustrated in fig, 2-40. The fifth example from the top in theillustration is in silver bound with gold wire, probably from Franceand of late Roman date. These tablets were not as a rule usedsingly, but strung together, so…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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