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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2013
The account of a discovery of metallurgical débris in a LM III context at Palaikastro in BSA 91 (1966), 213–52 is critically considered, with particular reference to the nature of the deposit, the date of its context, and the suggested identification of certain cire-perdue mould fragments as part of the investment mould for a tripod ring-support of Late Cypriot type. Strong doubts are expressed at the correctness of this identification.
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10 Ibid. 216, plan 1.
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12 Ibid.
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11 Ibid. 218. The Menelaion piece, from a LH III A1 context, will shortly be published.
16 MacGillivray et al. (n. 2), 143, fig. 22; Hemingway (n. 4), 217, fig. 1.
17 Hemingway (n. 4), 216–17, fig. 1·3, pl. 39 a–c.
18 MacGillivray et al. (n. 2), 143, fig. 22.
19 Hemingway (n. 4), 217, fig. 1.
20 Ibid. 215–16.
21 Ibid. 215 n. 8.
22 Reported by Paul Harrison, ibid. 251–2.
23 See for instance the account given some years ago by H. H. Coghlan, Notes on the Prehistoric Metallurgy of Copper and Bronze in the Old World (Oxford, 1951), 47–73, esp. 56–9.
24 Very few of the Lefkandi moulds retained investment clay within envelope clay, Catling (n. 13), 93–7. A cire perdue fragment in a LH III Al context at the Menelaion has both clays.
25 Hemingway (n. 4), 241.
26 Ibid. n. 39.
27 Ibid. 238.
28 Ibid. 230, 238–9 and nn. 30–1.
29 Ibid. 240, fig. 11.4; 248, fig. 12.
30 Platon, N., Zakro (New York and London, 1971), 147 = HM 2611–12Google Scholar, though, indeed, the relief is very slight; it is emphasized by the associated tracing.