[B-Greek] Luke 1:63 PINAKIDION?

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at redhat.com
Wed May 30 07:10:23 EDT 2007


I'm curious about what kind of writing tablet a PINAKIDION is in Luke 1:63:

Luke 1:63 KAI AITHSAS PINAKIDION EGRAYEN LEGWN,
IWANNHS ESTIN ONOMA AUTOU

Luke 1:63 καὶ αἰτήσας πινακίδιον ἔγραψεν λέγων, ** πινακίδιον="writing 
tablet"
Ἰωάννης ἐστὶν ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.

A.T. Robertson says this:
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> *Tablet * (PINAKIDION). Diminutive of PINAKIS. In Aristotle and the 
> papyri for writing tablet, probably covered with wax. Sometimes it was 
> a little table, like Shakespeare's "the table of my memory" (Hamlet, 
> i.5). It was used also of a physician's note-book.
Is this accurate?

Would this have been wood covered with beeswax? Would a stick be used to 
write on it? I saw a mosaic once with a wax tablet with about 8 pages - 
what range of sizes were in common use?

Jonathan


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