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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3566372, member: 96864"]Great steelyards and weights, that's a very interesting collection! And I've been wondering for a while now if the item in your avatar is a bronze Astragalos in your collection? If so that's quite nice as well. I've got some lead ones, and a lead-weighted and bronze-weighted natural bone ones but a solid bronze one is on the list. I've seen glass ones too which are pretty cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have suspicion about something and hope you don't mind me questioning this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]948876[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Was the stamped portion heavily cleaned? At first glance it looks much like the recently altered plain lead sling bullets with roman Legion stamps or owls or Athena which obviously deforms the lead, causing cracking and flaking/loss of the pale oxide/carbonate patina and revealing the grey metal below in spots. I'm not saying that it <i>is </i>a modern alteration and hopefully it's just over-cleaned which would certainly make sense but it would be worth studying it closely under magnification to see if the remaining patina in the stamp is suspiciously crackled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3566372, member: 96864"]Great steelyards and weights, that's a very interesting collection! And I've been wondering for a while now if the item in your avatar is a bronze Astragalos in your collection? If so that's quite nice as well. I've got some lead ones, and a lead-weighted and bronze-weighted natural bone ones but a solid bronze one is on the list. I've seen glass ones too which are pretty cool. I do have suspicion about something and hope you don't mind me questioning this: [ATTACH=full]948876[/ATTACH] Was the stamped portion heavily cleaned? At first glance it looks much like the recently altered plain lead sling bullets with roman Legion stamps or owls or Athena which obviously deforms the lead, causing cracking and flaking/loss of the pale oxide/carbonate patina and revealing the grey metal below in spots. I'm not saying that it [I]is [/I]a modern alteration and hopefully it's just over-cleaned which would certainly make sense but it would be worth studying it closely under magnification to see if the remaining patina in the stamp is suspiciously crackled.[/QUOTE]
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