Vase paintings show boys sitting on stools holding wood-backed wax writing tablets. They wrote on the wax with a stylus, a sort of bone or metal pencil pointed at one end and flattened out in a leaf shape at the other.

–The Ancient City,
Peter Connolly and Hazel Dodge

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A stylus is a writing instrument.

A(n) archaeological clue shows the meaning of the word stylus.