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Egyptian Bronze-Making Again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1944

References

1 Davies, N. de G., The Tomb of Puyemrê at Thebes, I, pls. XXIII, XXV, and p. 73 Google Scholar. Puyemrê lived under Queen Hatshepsut and into the opening years of Tethmosy III's reign (cf. pp. 21, 25), so that his scene would have been painted not later than 1500 B.C.

2 The whole scene, including the casting operation and the fusing of the metals in the furnace, is being published by the eresent writer in Man. It has often been published before, notably by P. E. Newberry, The Life of Rekhmara, pl. XVIII.

3 For the evidence for this see Wainwright, in Antiquity, XVII, p. 97 Google Scholar, note 7, or in the article in a forthcoming number of Man.

4 Wainwright, in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, XX , pp. 2932 Google Scholar.