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    A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used...
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  • Scotland Tableting, a confectionery manufacturing process A type of chocolate bar Energy tablets Clay tablet, one of the earliest known writing mediums Wax tablet...
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    originates from the Roman tabula, a wax-covered tablet used for notes, which was blanked (rasa) by heating the wax and then smoothing it. This roughly...
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    Sealing wax was used to close important documents in the Middle Ages. Wax tablets were used as writing surfaces. There were different types of wax in the...
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    water-powered paper mills produced large and cheap quantities of paper and the wax tablet and stylus disappeared completely from daily life. Styluses are still...
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    the wax had set, a metal stylus would be used to scratch letters into the wax, showing a lighter colour against the darker wax. These wax tablets could...
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    AD 79. The house is known both for its frescoes and for the trove of wax tablets discovered there in 1875, which gave scholars access to the records of...
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  • 20th century. The Ars Almadel instructs the magician on how to create a wax tablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying. The Ars...
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    (794–1185) were made of paper. The Ancient Romans developed the form from wax tablets. The gradual replacement of the scroll by the codex has been called the...
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  • 6.29306°W / 54.96639; -6.29306 The Springmount Bog Tablets are a set of six wooden wax tablets dating to the late 7th or early 8th century that were...
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