L Cooper Wrote:
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> WVK Wrote:
>
> > Petrie:
> > "...the lathe appears to have been as
> familiar an
> > instrument in the fourth dynasty, as it is in
> the
> > modern workshops."
>
> Petrie evidently changed his mind about this -


"What Petrie overlooked was the tooling requirements to manufacture these vases"
Not sure what this means. The lathe didn't exist then therefore the vases couldn't have br made on a lath?