Tab′let.
1. (Architecture.) A coping on a wall or scarp. 2. A plate or slab for writing upon. The pugillares of the ancients were made in the form of books, the leaves of skin, ivory, parchment, wood, fixed within covers and held by a wire or ribbon which passed through holes in all of them, so that they opened like a fan. The terms duplices, triplices, quintriplices, indicated the number of leaves.
Ivory tablets. |