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Oxhide ingot - Wikipedia Oxhide ingots are heavy (20–30 kg) metal slabs, usually of copper but sometimes of tin, produced and widely distributed during the Mediterranean Late Bronze Age (LBA) Their shape resembles the hide of an ox with a protruding handle in each of the ingot's four corners
The Oxhide Ingot from Lake Gogebic, Michigan - Andy White Anthropology For those of you unfamiliar with the term, an oxhide ingot is an ingot of copper cast into a quadrilateral shape with concave sides and four "handles" (apparently its called an “oxhide” because it resembles a stretched animal hide in shape)
Oxhide copper ingots - Heraklion Archaeological Museum Oxhide copper ingots, also known as “talents”, are standardised rectangular slabs of cast copper, with concave sides and protruding corners, a shape that resembles the stretched hide of an ox
Ingots and the Bronze Age Copper Trade in the Mediterranean Such ingots are most frequent in the Near East, while oxhide ingots are characteristic of the Mediterranean copper trade The latter would have been cast, perhaps in a pit, to form their ear-shaped handles
ingot | British Museum Copper oxhide-shaped ingot; mark comprising a semi-circle enclosing a horizontal line with two intersecting perpendicular lines to one end impressed on surface towards one edge
Case study - oxalid. arch. ox. ac. uk The origin of copper oxhide ingots found on Sardinia The copper ‘oxhide’ ingots are very special artefacts that are found around the Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age contexts
Oxhide ingot explained More than 160 copper oxhide ingots, 62 bun ingots, and some of the tin oxhide ingots have incised marks typically on their rough sides Some of these marks—resembling fish, oars, and boats—relate to the sea, and they were probably incised after casting, when the ingot was received or exported