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Stylus
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: Scribeâs palette with styluses and residues of colors Wood, vegetable fibers. Inv. no. : S. 8388 Material: Wood, vegetable fibers Dimensions: 26.8 x 3.2 x 0.7 cm Date: 1425â1353 BCE Period: New Kingdom Dynasty: Eighteenth Dynasty Reign: Amenhotep II / Tuthmosis IV / Amenhotep III Provenance: Deir el Medina / tomb of Kha (TT8) Acquisition: Schiaparelli excavations (1906). Temporary location: Archeologia Invisibile (Museo Egizio Torino).
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Comments: A stylus and writing tablet, the oldest known record of a commercial transaction in the City of London. It's dated 8 January 57. The black wax it originally held is gone, but the writer left marks in the wood which can be read. The writer, Tibullus the freedman of Venustus, writes that he owes Gratus the freedman of Spurius 105 denarii in exchange for merchandise. On display at the London Mithraeum.
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Comments: Medieval bronze stylus, found in Tiel.
From ISBE: Pencil: pen'-sil (Isaiah 44:13, margin "red ochre," the King James Version "line").
See LINE
See OCHRE, RED
Verses:
- Job 19:24
- Isaiah 8:1
- Isaiah 44:13
- Jeremiah 17:1
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