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Estimate concerning bronze-casting (?)

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Accession: JE51700
Find spot: Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia), Egypt approx. site location
Period: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date: mid 3rd c. B.C.
Date range: 275 BCE – 225 BCE
Materials: ['1 papyrus ; 16.5 x 15']
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Description

Only the end of the text is preserved, and bronze is not mentioned in it. But as the writer states that he will provide wax and will be provided with tin in the proportion of 1:8, it is probable that he was a bronze-caster using the lost-wax method.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (5)

TM-Text 1293 primary
APIS-Text oxford-ipap.apis.1132 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;4;59662 tier-1
DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen.4.59662 tier-1
HGV-Text 1293 tier-1

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