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Corinth's location on a map of modern Greece. Corinthian bronze, also named Corinthian brass, aes Corinthiacum, or Grilver was a metal alloy in classical antiquity.It is thought to be an alloy of copper with gold or silver (or both), although it has also been contended that it was simply a very high grade of bronze, or a kind of bronze that was manufactured in Corinth. [1]
Artemis and the Stag is an early Roman Imperial or Hellenistic bronze sculpture of the ancient Greek goddess Artemis. In June 2007 the Albright-Knox Art Gallery placed the statue into auction; it fetched $28.6 million, the highest sale price of any sculpture at the time.
Ancient Greek bronze statues of the classical period (18 P) Ancient Greek military equipment (6 C, 30 P) C. Coins of ancient Greece (40 P) Colossus of Rhodes (18 P) H.
Arsenical bronze is an alloy in which arsenic, ... such as the Greek god Hephaestus. [25] As Hephaestus was an iron-age smith, not a bronze-age smith, the connection ...
40 ("M" is "40" in Greek) and 5 ("Є" is "5" in Greek) nummi of Anastasius. A Byzantine follis of Constantine VII and Zoe. 914-919AD. 26 mm.. The term "follis" is used for the large bronze coin denomination (40 nummi) introduced in 498, with the coinage reform of Anastasius, which included a series of bronze denominations with their values marked in Greek numerals.
The Jockey of Artemision is a large Hellenistic bronze statue of a young boy riding a horse, dated to around 150–140 BC. [1] [2] It is a rare surviving original bronze statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example in Greek sculpture of a racehorse. Most ancient bronzes were melted down for their raw materials some time after creation, but ...
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The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra [1] and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), [2] plural ballistae or ballistas, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.