object

Anvil

Objects

A named iron or stone block that takes the hammer in smithing practice. Not a forge alone, not a bellows, and not a crucible.

Also known as Smith’s anvil

Hellenic religion

  • Anvil appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad’s Hephaestus scene names the anvil among the god’s forge gear when he works Achilles’ armor. A named Hellenic anvil in that epic, not a forge alone and not the Work hearth.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.