Writing in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Introduction Languages Uses for Writing Literacy Media Final Remarks

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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Wood Stylus
1st-4th Century AD
Karanis, Egypt

This wood stylus, less elegant than the bone stylus but funtionally identical, would have been used to inscribe wax tablets.


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