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Materials > Bronze
A broad range of alloys of copper, specifically any non-ferrous alloy of copper, tin, and zinc or other trace metals.
date unknown but likely late 1430s–1440s
4th–6th century C.E.
2nd–3rd century C.E.
1330–36
1538–45
1913 (cast 1999)
12th century
originally designed in slate in 1945, cast in bronze in 1964
Textbook Chapter
Medieval materiality across the Mediterranean, 900–1500
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