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Turned Aspis Project in Progress
For Bow drills see: Tools and Weapons by W.F. Flinders Petrie 1917
there are probably better references though this is a usefull volume....

Hodges" Technology in the Ancient World" says the Lathe image is from 300bc ish so Ptolemaic, and as far as I'm aware is the earliest representation, but probably not the earliest evidence, which would likely come from turned objects themselves, which is apparantly pretty sparse...
He also shows an image of a egyptian bow-drill derived from a 2000bc heiroglyph but there seems to be some confusion there as he also shows a pump drill...

A more upto date source might be this: Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology see pg 356-8 for bowdrills and lathes...

As for large turning wheels you might consider pottery wheels of the low two man variety, at least the idea is there, where one spins the wheel while the other works whats on it.... the greeks apparantly used this type up to the invention of the kick wheell..
Ivor

"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
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Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Chris B - 05-27-2008, 08:45 PM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Kineas - 06-02-2008, 01:41 PM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Kineas - 06-16-2008, 01:40 PM
turned aspis - by The Spinner - 06-17-2008, 12:21 PM
print - by The Spinner - 06-17-2008, 09:27 PM
Turned Aspis project - by Paullus Scipio - 06-18-2008, 01:58 AM
Re: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Magnus - 03-12-2009, 02:27 AM
RE: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Feinman - 08-14-2017, 11:37 AM
RE: Turned Aspis Project in Progress - by Crispianus - 08-20-2017, 08:15 PM

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