Anna Willi

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Curator: Ancient Mediterranean Life at the British Museum. Opinions my own. 📜🏛️🏺

Drawing of a Roman bone ‘rule’: a rectangular strip of bone, c. 14–15 cm long, with a plano-convex section and a rounded, perforated appendix on one of the shorter ends. Found at L’Escala, Ampurias, Spain. Drawing by Michel Feugère, from artefacts.mom.fr, RGL-4006.
Photo showing a detail from a fresco in the tomb of C. Vestorius Priscus, Pompeii. It shows a number of objects related to writing on a bench or bed and on a round table behind it. On the bed or bench, next to a sealed codex of wax tablets, is an object that can be identified as a bone ‘spatulate’ strip or bone ‘rule’. Photo (c) Jackie and Bob Dunn, pompeiiinpictures.com.
Image of an Archaeopress book cover, reading: Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments. Text, Image, Message. Edited by Tibor Grüll.