Photographic Archive of Papyri in the Cairo Museum


P.Cair.Zen. 4 59662

16.5 x 15

CG59662; JE51700

Estimate concerning bronze-casting (?)

(?)

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.

 

 

 

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