A wooden board or pair of hinged boards faced with beeswax, tinted dark for contrast. A scribe uses a blunt stylus to scratch notes, receipts, or tallies into the wax; the marks are erased by smoothing with the stylus handle and warming to restore the surface. Merchants and clerks carry wax tablets for quick reckoning.
Wax Tablet
Beeswax-faced hinged boards; erasable notes for merchants' quick reckoning.