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.
H. 7.4; L. 27.5; Dia. 21.2 cm. Photo courtesy Mediterranean Section, Univ.
of Pennsylvania Museum.