trial_description_8:
Thin, flat object with rim, fragments of a copper alloy y-z dish or plate; incomplete. Has been consolidated with wax in the past.
ADDENDA: wax was identified as a hydrocarbon wax , showed similarities with paraffin wax (the most likely identification), by DAVID THICKETT, BRITISH MUSEUM
See Alice Paterakis, "The Hidden Secrets of Copper Alloy Artifacts in the Agora", in Objects Specialty Group, AIC, 1999, ed. V.Green, pp. 70-76
trial_archivenotes_13:
Found in a drawer of North Slope bronzes, without an inventory number, by Kathy Hall in the Conservation Lab in 1993. Catalogued by Alice Paterakis in March 2002.