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LOT 0493
Greek Lead Slingshot with Alpha
1ST CENTURY B.C.
1 1/4 in. (26.2 grams, 32 mm).
Lenticular type with casting seam to the rim, raised iconic Greek letter A (alpha) on one side and the other side with a thunderbolt(?).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Schinco, G., Small, A.M., 'A previously unknown siege of Botromagno/Silvium: the evidence of slingshots from Gravina in Puglia (Provincia di Bari, Puglia)' in Papers of the British School at Rome, 2019, pp.1-52, fig.31,22 (type Volling IIb); for Hellenistic sling bullets with thunderbolt see Yuzefovsky, B., 'Lead Sling Bullets' in Re'em, A. (ed.), The Qishleh Excavation in the Old City of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 2018, p.199-200, fig.2.
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