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Casting Doubt: Economic and Technological Considerations Regarding Metal Casting in the Ancient World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
Abstract
The lost wax casting technique is almost impossible to use if the finished object must be of a specified weight or must utilize all of a given batch of metal. This basic fact helps to explain why Old World ancient gold jewelry, particularly of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine origin, is almost always-hand wrought rather than cast. Similar considerations relate to the manufacture of copper-alloy weights or other objects which appear to be of pre-determined weight.
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