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...
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Hepatizon (redirect from Black corinthian bronze)
etymology: ἧπαρ, English translation: "liver"), also known as black Corinthian bronze, was a highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity. It is thought...
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The Corinthian helmet originated in ancient Greece and took its name from the city-state of Corinth. It was a helmet made of bronze which in its later...
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Black bronze can refer to: Hepatizon, also known as black Corinthian bronze Shakudō, a Japanese decorative billon This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Critias of Plato Corinthian bronze – Highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity Hepatizon – Alloy also known as Black Corinthian Bronze Electrum – Alloy...
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from Japan Corinthian bronze – Highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity Hepatizon – Alloy also known as Black Corinthian Bronze Electrum – Alloy...
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Mysia, early–mid 4th century BC Electrum stater, Carthage, c. 300 BC Corinthian bronze – a highly prized alloy in antiquity that may have contained electrum...
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Ancient Corinth (section Corinthian War)
a play by English dramatist John Fletcher, published in 1647 Corinthian bronze Corinthian helmet Isthmian Games Temple of Isthmia Dillon, Matthew; Garland...
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Japan Corinthian bronze – Highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity Hepatizon – Alloy also known as Black Corinthian Bronze (Black bronze) Electrum –...
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Constantan (nickel) Copper hydride (hydrogen) Copper–tungsten (tungsten) Corinthian bronze (gold, silver) Cunife (nickel, iron) Cupronickel (nickel) CuSil (silver)...
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Copper (section Bronze Age)
and in Central Europe. The gates of the Temple of Jerusalem used Corinthian bronze treated with depletion gilding.[clarification needed][citation needed]...
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drink, and they say that the Corinthian bronze, when red-hot, is tempered by this water, since bronze […] the Corinthians have not. Moreover near Peirene...
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1800 °C, to form the 3–6 micrometers thick colored surface oxide layer. Corinthian bronze Crown gold Electrum Hepatizon List of alloys Mokume-gane, a mixed-metal...
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of which the as coin was previously made. Ashtadhatu Auricupride Corinthian bronze Electrum Hepatizon Panchaloha Shakudō Shibuichi Thokcha Tumbaga "The...
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Niello (section Bronze Age)
in fact a technique of patinated metal that may be the same as the Corinthian bronze known from ancient literature, and is similar to the Japanese Shakudō...
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List of copper alloys (section Bronzes)
the large number of different types, the best known traditional types are bronze, where tin is a significant addition, and brass, using zinc instead. Both...
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unless the workmanship possessed unusual merit; those made of marble, Corinthian bronze, silver or gold, were, however, frequently of considerable value."...
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The Corinthian is a 57-story apartment building at 330 East 38th Street in Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City. It was New York City's largest apartment...
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well as in mokume-gane processes. Shakudō Shibuichi Corinthian bronze and hepatizon (Black bronze) Electrum Orichalcum Panchaloha Tumbaga Untracht, Oppi...
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capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders, and applied to friezes, dentils and other decorated areas. The oldest known example of a Corinthian column is...
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Cognac – Cognac, France Concord coach – Concord, New Hampshire, US Corinthian bronze – Corinth, Greece Cornish pasty – Cornwall, UK Damascus steel – Damascus...
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Elis Coprus Corax of Syracuse Cordax Coresus Corinthian bronze Corinthian helmet Corinthian order Corinthian War Corinthus Coriscus of Scepsis Corium (Crete)...
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underlying surfaces show through partly. Mokume-gane Corinthian bronze and hepatizon (Black bronze) Electrum Orichalcum Panchaloha Tumbaga Vienna, Bohlau...
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(Ἀθηνᾶ Πρόμαχος, "Athena who fights in the front line") was a colossal bronze statue of Athena sculpted by Pheidias, which stood between the Propylaea...
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four fine gilt bronze fluted columns of the Corinthian order. The Naples Museum contains a large collection of domestic utensils of bronze, recovered from...
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Classical order (section Corinthian order)
column employed. The three orders of architecture—the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian—originated in Greece. To these the Romans added, in practice if not in...
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it with oil for some years, it will have acquired the patina of a Corinthian bronze and the personality of a 100-year-old brandy. ...Thirty years of sheer...
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The statue of Pericles with the Corinthian Helmet is a lost, life-sized statue of the Athenian statesman and general Pericles. Today, only some of the...
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Bembine Tablet (category Bronze objects)
it in organic acid. This black metal is possibly a variety of the "Corinthian bronze" described by Pliny and Plutarch. Although the scenes are Egyptianising...
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Pottery of ancient Greece (redirect from Proto-Corinthian)
show the greatest experimentation in the early phase of Corinthian black-figure. As Corinthian artists gained confidence in their rendering of the human...
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