AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4336, 6 October 1875, Page 3

AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

The Pungolq of Naples reports an interesting discovery at "Pompeii, consisting of a number of wooden tablets with writings. They were found carefully arranged in an ivory box. The banks of the tablets are smooth and unwritten upon, and their faces, upon which the writing is found, are surrounded with a kind of frame or border. They are either separate, or tied together, book-shapej with twine in bundles of three and four. On the tablets thus bound together the writing is almost always in ink; but the characters on the singles ones, which had been covered with wax, were engraved, and are still legible though the wax has disappeared, as the sharp point of the style had cut into the wood beneath. The separate tablets contain receipts for payments of money, and bear the consular date, with the name of the day and the month, and the amount paid. On the outside edge of the centre tablet of those bound up in book form is written an index of the names contained in the volume. It is entitled perscriptio, and is followed with a name in the genitive or dative. The tablets are evidently accounts, and from the way ia which they are kept there can be no doubt that the spot where they were found was the site of a Roman Banker's house. They were discovered in excellent condition, though the damp to which they had been exposed has rendered them very fragile. Those bound together are in the best state of preservation. Signor Piorelli has given an account of the discovery to the Archaeological Academy of Naples, and it is expected that it will throw much light upon the conduct of business transactionst under the Empire.

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