Title: | Bronze Casting Pit and Workshop | |
Category: | Pit | |
Description: | Debris filling in a bronze casting pit and workshop, characterized by mold fragments but including also a few plain vases and fragments of wine jars. Third quarter of 4th. c. BC. The pit was cut into the soft bedrock to a depth of -1.43m and is 1.70m wide at its broadest extremity. The ground plan is that of a slightly lop-sided keyhole. The preserved length of the pit is 4.80m., of which the dromos takes up 3.10m. The dromos was 0.60m wide and descended into the pit proper in 5 steps, also cut into the bedrock. | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 156, n. 51. | |
Hesperia 46 (1977), pp. 350-356. | ||
Hesperia 26 (1957), p. 100, pls. 28 a-b. | ||
Agora XII, p. 383. | ||
Agora XXI, p. 96. | ||
Agora XXXVII, p. 217. | ||
Chronology: | Ca. 350-325 B.C. | |
Date: | 21 April-May 1956 | |
Section: | ΠΠ | |
Grid: | ΠΠ:6-11/ΜΒ-ΜΔ | |
ΠΠ:6-11/ΜΑ-ΜΒ | ||
References: | Publications (6) Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 10, p. 383 Publication Page: Agora 12.2, s. 45, p. 418 Report: 1956 ΠΠ Report Page: 1956 ΠΠ, s. 6 Report Page: 1956 ΠΠ, s. 16 Images (12) Objects (25) Lots (9) Notebook: ΠΠ-6 Notebook: ΠΠ-12 Notebook: ΠΠ-13 Notebook Pages (8) |