Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 296
a button, called umbilicus^ intended to prevent the pagestouching when closed, and obliterating the letters traced on theyielding wax. The tablets here represented would be called twofold, asconsisting only of two leaves; in the following cut may be seenanother sort, consisting of several leaves,… … Beside them stands a double inkstand, intended probably tocontain both black and red ink. The former was made either oflampblack or some other sort of charcoal, or from the cuttlefish,and was called atramentum. As it contained no mordant, andwas readily obliterated by moisture, it could be used for…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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