Moulds for sling-shot - Help

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In this article in Russian, you can see a small photograph (table 4, fig. 24) of the Phanagoria find. This fragment of the casting mold was made out of Chios amphora handle and dates to 4-3 c. B.C.E. The length of the fragment is 6.7 cm. It is kept in The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (Inv. # T.1870.35).

If you PM me your email address, I could send you good photographs of the Hermitage casting mold.

In this known article by Manfred Korfmann "The Sling as a Weapon" (translated in Russian) you can see a graphic reconstruction of the casting mold from Olynthus.