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WAX TABLET
A wax tablet (tabula) is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in the ancient Greek and Roman world. Writing was performed with a pointed instrument, a stylus. A straight-edged implement would be used in a razor-like fashion to re-smoothen the surface, before next use.
Wax tablets were used for a variety of purposes, from students' or secretaries' notes to recording business accounts. Early forms of shorthand were used too.
Some examples of wax-tablets have been preserved in waterlogged deposits, for example in the Roman fort at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall.
The modern expression, of "a clean slate" is related to the Latin expression "tabula rasa".
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