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Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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Bone Stylus
1st-4th Century AD
Rome

This is an example of a stylus carved from bone. The pointed end would have been used to inscribe a wax tablet, and the rounded end would have been used, much like a modern eraser, to even out the wax over a mistake.


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