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• The gates of the Temple of Jerusalem used Corinthian bronze treated with depletion gilding.
• The gates of the Temple of Jerusalem used Corinthian bronze made by depletion gilding.
• This black metal is possibly a variety of the " Corinthian bronze " described by Pliny and Plutarch.
• According to Pliny, the method of making it, like that for Corinthian bronze, had been lost for a long time.
• The British South African Company arranged for the statue to be cast at Leonard Grist's Corinthian Bronze Company foundry in London.
• Corinthian bronze is said to have been first produced by accident in the Roman burning of the city ( 146 BC ) when streams of moten copper, gold and silver mingled.
• He tells of the fake-buster who claimed that he could date any bronze simply by smelling it and that " Corinthian bronze had the most distinctive bouquet of all ."
• According to legend, Corinthian bronze was first created by accident, during the burning of Corinth by Lucius Mummius Achaicus in 146 BC, when the city's immense quantities of gold, silver, and copper melted together.
• Pliny the Elder mentions it in his " Natural History ", stating that it is less valuable than Corinthian bronze, which contained a greater proportion of gold or silver and as a result resembled the precious metals, but was esteemed before bronze from Delos and Aegina.
• Pliny however, remarked that this story is unbelievable, because most of the creators of the highly valued works in Corinthian bronze in Ancient Greece lived at a much earlier period than second century BC . although some sources describe the process by which it is created, involving heat treatment, quenching, alchemical quest to turn base metals into precious metals.