This wall painting shows that women were able to write (and therefore must have been able to read) as she is holding a pen -a stylus- and something to write on –a wax tablet.

Even though girls of a wealthy or middle class background were able to have advantages of education, it would not be the case for girls from a poor background, as the girls would have to stay at home and helped their mothers in home. Children would have been taught in the school of the Ludi Magister; here they would have been taught to read and write. We know that girls were taught here as well as boys, by a source by Martial, he speaks about the Ludi Magister, who he says:

“Was an object of hatred to boys and girls.”

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