Writing Tablet and Lid
During the Middle Ages, paper and parchment were expensive, and many people took advantage of less permanent forms of written communication. One side of an ivory tablet was coated with wax; then a message was incised in the wax with a stylus (which looks like a large pin) and...
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9704
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Sale, Cologne, December 14, 1893, no. 92; Marcus Antocolsky, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Marcus Antocolsky Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 10, 1901, no. 73; George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 15, 1901, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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8
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.283_VwA_DD_T10.jpg |
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| imageCount | 8 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.283 |
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