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
s were tabula, calamus, and papyrus. read, rolled up at each end, so as to show only the column ofwriting upon which the student was intent. At the other side isa purse, or bag, to hold the reed, penknife, and other writing in-struments. The next cut represents, besides a set of tablets bound up,… … TABUL.E, STYLUS, AND PAPYRUS. profited in the compilation of his medical works,tains, besides a papyrus similar to those described, a hexagonalinkstand, with a ring to pass the finger through, upon whichthere lies an instrument resembling a reed, but the absence of theknots, or joints, marks it to…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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