Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Fuel for smelting furnaces
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:50:43 -0800
I guess this thread is closed.
Apparently there is not enough information surviving from bronze age sources
to tell whether or not ancient smelters may have used a heavy petroleum
product in their smelting where smelting was done away from a handy source
of trees for charcoal.
All I know is that the phrase seems to indicate a hot, smokey fire, and the
only fuels I know that give both are heavy crude oils, such as pitch or
bitumen. Hence my opening question.
Still curious, but apparently (shrug) the data is not available.
Karl W. Randolph.
Re: [b-hebrew] Fuel for smelting furnaces,
K Randolph, 02/02/2010