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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Omeka ID 3240
Pla de l'Horta

stylus

MAC GIR-042140

Object type
stylus
Production date
-199 / -100
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Girona
Culture
-
Discovery location
Pla de l'Horta
Materials
bone
Township
Sarrià de Ter (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Gironès)
Technique
polishing
Where is it?
MASPG
Dimensions
127 x 7 (Ø màx.) mm
Description
Roman stylus from the second century BC found at the Pla de l'Horta site (Sarrià de Ter, Gironès). Styli like this were used to write on wax tablets called “tabellae ceratae”, wooden tablets with a frame and with a layer of wax inside as a writing surface. Several tablets joined by strings or rings formed notebooks (leaflets, leaflets ...) similar to the current ones. Bone styli were made on a lathe. They have a truncated or bit-truncated conical shape, with a pointed end, to write and the other end with a ball or flat surface, to erase. These types of writing instruments were used since a very early time and were manufactured with various materials such as reeds, bone or iron. Even today we use a kind of stylus for electronic appliances with touch screens on mobile devices and consoles, which remind us of this old writing instrument.

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