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work_jhnc4rbhtvd3jbi6y72ne6lqtm	L. B. Hunt	The long history of lost wax casting	1980	17	.pdf	application/pdf	12417	572	66	Johnson Matthey & Co. Limited, London, U.K. The origins of lost wax or investment casting, often known as cire perdue, and still the most accurate and reliable means of reproducing complex shapes in gold or other metals with all the fine detail of an original cast only by the lost wax process, as well as gold dress The earliest example of a lost wax casting in gold is The earliest known written reference to lost wax casting comes from the, Babylonian city of Sippar and is dated 1789 Louvre, in an attitude of worship, but the great interest from his time arises from the first known written reference to the lost wax casting process. cast in gold and is dated to the fourteenth century B.C. Photograph by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum Palestine, while excavations at Alalakh, west of Aleppo, have revealed the lost wax casting of gold	./cache/work_jhnc4rbhtvd3jbi6y72ne6lqtm.pdf	./txt/work_jhnc4rbhtvd3jbi6y72ne6lqtm.txt