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  2. Akan goldweights - Wikipedia

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    Studying the weight's cultural background or provenance is an accurate method of dating the weights. Historical records accompanying the weight describing the people to whom it belonged to, as well as a comparative study of the weights and oral and artistic traditions of neighbouring communities should be part of studying the background and ...

  3. Balance puzzle - Wikipedia

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    For example, in detecting a dissimilar coin in three weighings (⁠ = ⁠), the maximum number of coins that can be analyzed is ⁠ = ⁠.Note that with ⁠ ⁠ weighings and ⁠ ⁠ coins, it is not always possible to determine the nature of the last coin (whether it is heavier or lighter than the rest), but only that the other coins are all the same, implying that the last coin is the ...

  4. Bronze sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs , and small statuettes and figurines , as well as bronze elements to be fitted to other objects such as furniture.

  5. Category:Bronze objects - Wikipedia

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    Bronze objects. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. B. Bronze mirrors (10 P) Bronze sculptures (9 C, 118 P) ...

  6. Bronze - Wikipedia

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    Bronze, or bronze-like alloys and mixtures, were used for coins over a longer period. Bronze was especially suitable for use in boat and ship fittings prior to the wide employment of stainless steel owing to its combination of toughness and resistance to salt water corrosion. Bronze is still commonly used in ship propellers and submerged bearings.

  7. Benin Bronzes - Wikipedia

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    "The king's palace or court is a square, and is as large as the town of Haarlem and entirely surrounded by a special wall, like that which encircles the town. It is divided into many magnificent palaces, houses, and apartments of the courtiers, and comprises beautiful and long square galleries...resting on wooden pillars, from top to bottom covered with cast copper, on which are engraved the ...

  8. Deben (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Set of balance beams and weighing stones from 10 to 100 units, likely deben, was painted on the wall of the tomb of Third Dynasty official Hesy-Ra at Saqqara. [4] Stone weights from the Old Kingdom have been found, weighing about 13.6 g (0.48 oz; 0.44 ozt), giving presumed value of the gold deben, e.g. the weighing stone of king Userkaf . [ 5 ]

  9. Chinese bronze inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    mǎ horse 虎 hǔ tiger 豕 shǐ swine 犬 quǎn dog 象 xiàng elephant 龜 guī turtle 為 wèi to lead 疾 jí illness 馬 虎 豕 犬 象 龜 為 疾 mǎ hǔ shǐ quǎn xiàng guī wèi jí horse tiger swine dog elephant turtle {to lead} illness Of the 12,000 inscribed bronzes extant today, roughly 3,000 date from the Shang dynasty, 6,000 from the Zhou dynasty, and the final 3,000 from the ...