It was partially destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD . This house is known for its beauty, along with some material found about bank book-keeping and wax tablets, which were receipts.
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Though the archetypal pencil was an artist's brush, the stylus, a thin metal stick used for scratching in papyrus or wax tablets, was used extensively by the Romans, and for palm-leaf manuscripts.
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According to the account in the " Ad Herennium " ( Book III ) backgrounds or'places'are like wax tablets, and the images that are'placed'on or within them are like writing.
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Traditionally, geomancy requires a surface of sand and the hands or a stick, but can be done equally well with a wax tablet and stylus or a pen and paper; ritualized objects may or may not be desired for use in divination.
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The equipment used at this stage consisted of wax tablets ( tabulae ) which would be written on with a stick ( stili ) with a pointed end for writing and a flat end for rubbing the wax back so it could be written on again.
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Although he was preceded by the Chinese, Nicomachus provided one of the earliest Greco-Roman multiplication tables, whereas the oldest extant Greek multiplication table is found on a wax tablet dated to the 1st century AD ( now found in the British Museum ).
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Due to the Christian text on the tablets, dates earlier than the Christianization of Kievan Rus'in 988 are considered unlikely, and as such, the wax tablets are reliably dated to a very narrow 42-year window between 988 and 1030 AD.
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Clotho carries a spindle or a roll ( the book of fate ), Lachesis a staff with which she points to the horoscope on a globe, and Atropos ( Aisa ) a scroll, a wax tablet, a sundial, a pair of scales, or a cutting instrument.
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The Lex Gabinia of 139 BC introduced the secret ballot, where each voter wrote the initials of the desired candidate on a small wax tablet to be placed in a box known as the " cista " at the exit of each of the " pontes ."
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The Lindisfarne Gospels are impeccably designed, and as Backhouse points out, vellum would have been too expensive for practice runs for the pages, and so preliminary designs may have been done on a wax tablet ( hollowed-out wood or bone with a layer of wax ).
