The text on this diptych is written in uncial letters, in roughly parallel columns which are at times separated by vertical lines and regularly divided by horizontal strokes to indicate the transition to new items or new dates.;The two leaves were turned back to back, i. e.with the wooden surfaces touching, the edges with the two pairs of holes being at the left. When all the space on the waxed surface of the upper tablet was filled, the writer turned the diptych over vertically and not horizontally, and began to write on the other waxed surface. The result was that, when the two waxed faces subsequently were folded together, the top of one leaf was opposite the bottom of the other, and the writing on one of them would appear upside down.
Arsinoite nome, province of Egypt