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Materials > Bronze
Refers to a broad range of alloys of copper, specifically any non-ferrous alloy of copper, tin, and zinc or other trace metals.
1446–50
c. 6th century B.C.E.
early 7th century
late 6th century
1st–2nd century C.E.
16th–19th century
c. 2700–2100 B.C.E.
late 4th–early 6th century C.E.
Medieval Materiality across the Mediterranean, 900–1500
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