Or would I say forge or kiln? I better look up some obscure Latin if I’m going to continue worrying about the identity of objects on the Papius series (j/k). Anyway this is relevant to ancient technologies around metal refinement and thus would be familiar to those engaged in mint operations.
If this is really Crawford symbol 24 like the catalogue suggests, than the drawings (or they specimens they were based on) were poor indeed.
Liv Mariah Yarrow 