Our Treasures: Slate notebook at Whangārei Museum - how did it get here?
11 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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The 150-year-old writing slate book from Radcliffe Estate Office, 1869 at Whangārei Museum; about the size of a cellphone (1969.18.7a). Photos / Supplied
The 150-year-old writing slate book from Radcliffe Estate Office, 1869 at Whangārei Museum; about the size of a cellphone (1969.18.7a). Photos / Supplied
OUR TREASURES
In around 3100 BC the earliest form of writing is believed to have begun in Mesopotamia. Clay tablets were used to make wedge shaped marks using a reed scribe which had been cut to form a nib shaped edge.