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Litharge

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Litharge is the yellow oxide of lead collected from silver cupellation furnaces and kept among Roman metal remedies as a distinct plaster ingredient, not the raw ore.

Admitted autonomously from source pliny-nh (NH 34 (fixture paraphrase of lead furnace oxide)).

Discovery method: OPEN_WORLD_SOURCE_EXTRACTION.

Extraction reason: Identity clause (“X is a/an …”) in source passage.

Identifying passage: Litharge is the yellow oxide of lead collected from silver cupellation furnaces and kept among Roman metal remedies as a distinct plaster ingredient, not the raw ore.

  • Litharge is used in Medicine.

    At Epidauros Pausanias records litharge among mineral plasters in the healing precinct; attendants apply the furnace oxide in medicinal dressings apart from votive offerings.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

  • Litharge is used in Offerings.

    Litharge used in Offerings. Litharge is the yellow oxide of lead collected from silver cupellation furnaces and kept among Roman metal remedies as a distinct plaster ingredient, not the raw ore. Gifts given to gods, dead, or powers: fire, food, blood, incense, words. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.

    from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

    used in · interpretive · modern interpretation

  • Litharge is used in Incense.

    Litharge used in Incense. Litharge is the yellow oxide of lead collected from silver cupellation furnaces and kept among Roman metal remedies as a distinct plaster ingredient, not the raw ore. Aromatics burned as offering or perfume. The Atlas keeps their meeting local, without dissolving either into a single meaning.

    from SHOE.BLUE · SHOE.BLUE, 2026

    used in · interpretive · modern interpretation

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