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Source Description
Round in section, the handle tapers gently to a small rounded point. The writing end, now lost, would have tapered to a sharper point.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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32368
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Stylus Fragment
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object
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Source metadata
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32368
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title
Stylus Fragment
description
Round in section, the handle tapers gently to a small rounded point. The writing end, now lost, would have tapered to a sharper point.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st-3rd century (Roman Imperial)
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CC0
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en
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styluses
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1
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H: 3 9/16 in. (9.1 cm)
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1
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photo
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