Title: śmn-Km, Corinthian bronze, shakudo: black-patinated bronze in the ancient world
Abstract: Abstract Distinctive and highly prized black-patinated bronzes inlaid with precious metals are known from a number of early cultures. Investigation of these has shown that they are technically very similar, an alloy of copper or bronze with small amounts of gold, silver and sometimes arsenic, inlaid and then patinated with hot aqueous solutions. They include the Egyptian śmn-km, the black panels on the Mycenaean daggers from the shaft graves, the Corinthian bronze of Roman fame, culminating more recently in the Chinese wu tong and the Japanese shakudo.
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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