Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York [The Gilliss Press] · leaf 491
er the die,covered by a piece of wax or lead, and thenbeaten into the die by means of a woodenhammer or finer tool. A number of such moulds have been found belonging to the Mycenaean, geometric, orientaliz-ing, and Roman periods. In the best Greek period such mechanical devicesdo not seem to have… … TOOLS handlungen der kgl. sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, XIV, pp. Miscella- 277 ff.; E. Pernice, Oesterreichische Jahreshefte, 1904, pp. 180 ff.). The NE°us majority of such moulds are of stone, but bronze ones have also been found J OOLS(cf. Marshall, loc. cit.). Length, 3*- in. (9.2…
Bronzes · Art, Ancient
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