ink eraser

[Stephen Goranson]

Knives were used by scribes, e.g., in ancient Egypt, to erase, scrape, ink, from papyrus. This obtained, I think,
both in the era of rush brush and palette writing and later reed pen and inkwell writing.

E.g.,, see:

http://books.google.com/books?id=4q1MHDoFVwkC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=knives+erase+papyrus&source=bl&ots=vCt_Sjti_a&sig=EOksI4Xt6e0XEdZQNyO6tHUvdGk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fXolT5OmHMfAtwfVsonnAw&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=knives%20erase%20papyrus&f=false

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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