Metalworking pit hearth

Metalworking pit hearth
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A particularly deep metalworking pit hearth (approximately 40 cm), associated with a kind of mud-brick chest without a base or cover (length: 3.70 m; depth: 0.40 m), found empty. Two similar chests found in the same site (Pec) contained a wealth of material (terracotta and copper/bronze).

Mission archéologique de Mari. Photo J.-C. Margueron, 1994

Mission archéologique de Mari. Photo J.-C. Margueron, 1994

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