Attic Red Figure Kylix ca. 480 b.c.
By the Eucharides Painter
Orvieto, Etruria
MS 4842
A seated boy inscribing with a stylus on a fivepart folding wax tablet. The tablet is typical of the sort used by schoolboys learning to write. The chest at the boy´s right may have been used for storing scrolls. Photo courtesy Mediterranean Section, Univ. of
Pennsylvania Museum (99k)