- Date: Probably Roman.
- General description: Made
of lead, weight 3.225 kilograms. Overall dimensions,
vertical 10 cm, horizontal 8.5 cm,
- Detailed description:
The body is a stubby truncated cone sloped over 45º, 5 cm high,
round at the base. It has a 2 cm eye-hole to attach the sounding line.There
seem to be a simple cavity at the base.
- Sites underwater: Tripoli (Lebanon).
- Notes:
- The leads are all made the same way : a hole at the
top to secure a line and a cavity at the base intended to contain a
sticky material, (pitch,bitumen,resin) which permitted to recuperate
sediment from the bottom and find about its nature, sand, mud, weeds
or rocks.
- Text and drawing
of Gerhard Kapitan .
- Private collection: Raymond Abdulnour (Lebanon).
- Typology: T 58, lest
plummet.
