Greek Lead Slingshot with Monogram

3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.

1 1/4 in. (30.6 grams, 33 mm).

Lenticular type with casting seam to the rim, raised monogram (caduceus?) on one side. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Literature

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, figs.7-8-9, 37 (type Volling IIb); for a bullet with caduceus see Tsaravopoulos, A., 'Inscribed sling bullets from "Kastro" in Antikythera (Greece), in Gdanske Studia Archeologiczne no.2, Gdansk, 2012, pp.207-220, fig.10d.

CONDITION

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