Tablet - Inscription, Printing, and Writing Media

Inscription, Printing, and Writing Media

  • Stele, earliest stone tablet inscriptions
  • Clay tablet, one of the earliest known writing mediums
  • Wax tablet, used as far back as ancient Greece, what scribes wrote on
  • Wooden tablet, such as the Vindolanda tablets
  • Tabula ansata, tablets with handles
  • Notebook of blank or lined paper, usually bound with glue or staples along one edge

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