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Terracotta figure: Woman reading a writing tablet

Seated woman dressed in a chiton wearing a cylindrical headpiece known as a polos. In her lap rests a rectangular writing tablet
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    Woman reading a double writing-tablet or tabellae (ca. 300 BC). Terra cotta figurine found in Benghazi, Libya (ancient Cyrenaica). British Museum 1856,1001.36. © Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission. 

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    Ovid, Amores 1.11
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