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Bronze

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A copper-alloy of tools, weapons, and statues. Ages named “bronze” are archaeological labels, not a single sacred metal doctrine.

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Celtic tradition

  • Tin is historically related to Bronze.

    Caesar’s Gallic War Book 5 pairs coastal British tin with imported bronze in one metal ethnography of the island. A named historical relation of those metals in that report, not a modern alloy recipe dump and not medicine seats alone.

    from Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE

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Chinese tradition

  • Gu is historically related to Bronze.

    Bushell’s Bronze chapter seats the gū as a tall ritual wine beaker among archaic Chinese bronze vessels — bronze-vessel speech, not a jade cong alone.

    from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)

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  • Bianzhong is historically related to Bronze.

    Bushell’s Bronze / music notes seat bianzhong as the graduated bronze bell-chime sets of Chinese courts — chime-bell speech, not a single temple bell dump.

    from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)

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  • Yangqin is historically related to Bronze.

    Bushell seats the yangqin as the Chinese hammered dulcimer with metal strings over a soundboard Yangqin historically related to bronze, not a free synonym dump and not a forced identity merge.

    from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)

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    tradition · 8

    Roman religion

    • Bronze appears in Roman religion.

      Virgil’s Aeneid seats bronze among arms, temple fittings, and wrought metal of Trojan and Italian gear. A named bronze in that epic, not iron as the harder metal and not a modern alloy dump.

      from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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    Hellenic religion

    • Bronze appears in Hellenic religion.

      Pausanias names bronze among dedicatory statues and sanctuary gear throughout the periegesis. A named bronze in that travel book, not a modern alloy dump and not every Homeric bronze epithet alone.

      from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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    • Bronze is used in Hellenic religion.

      The Iliad seats bronze as the standing metal of weapons, armor, and Hephaestus’ melting-vats throughout the poem. A named Homeric bronze in craft and war use, not tin or gold as flatten and not a Pausanias bronze-dedication dump alone.

      from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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    Egyptian religion

    • Bronze appears in Egyptian religion.

      Herodotus’s Egyptian logos names bronze among vessels, fittings, and works of Egyptian temples and craft. A named bronze in that traveler’s Egypt, not electrum and not the Pausanias Hellenic bronze seat.

      from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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    Nahua tradition

    • Bronze appears in Nahua tradition.

      Sahagún’s Florentine Codex seats copper-alloy / bronze-class metal among bells, tools, and craft speech beside copper keep-apart. A named bronze lemma in that colonial ethnography, not copper as the already-filed metal seat alone and not a Greek hoplite dump.

      from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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    Vedic tradition

    • Bronze appears in Vedic tradition.

      The Ṛgveda’s áyas metal speech covers hard copper-alloy work of tools and force as often as later ‘iron’ renderings. A named Vedic bronze/alloy reading of áyas, not a chemistry proof that every áyas is Cu-Sn and not the already-filed iron-vedic-rigveda row alone.

      from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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    Celtic tradition

    • Bronze appears in Celtic tradition.

      Caesar’s Gallic War Book 5 reports bronze as imported among the Britons, beside coastal tin in the same metal ethnography. A named bronze in that Roman report, not Virgil epic bronze alone and not tin as the coastal metal already seated beside it here.

      from Julius Caesar · Gallic War, c. 50s BCE

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    Mesopotamian tradition

    • Bronze appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

      The Epic of Gilgamesh seats cast metal weapons and gear among the axe and sword furniture prepared for the Cedar Forest. A named bronze-class metal in that epic’s casting neighborhood, not copper as the element-only row and not iron as a later blade metal alone.

      from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)

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    European folklore

    • Gilt Bronze is historically related to Bronze.

      Sheraton’s Dictionary seats gilt bronze among gilded bronze mounts and furniture ornaments of cabinet metal speech. A named gilt-bronze in that trade, not ormolu as the ground-gold brass finish alone and not japanning.

      from Thomas Sheraton · The Cabinet Dictionary, 1803

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    Roman religion

    • Bell metal is historically related to Bronze.

      Pliny’s Natural History treats copper-tin alloys of sounding vessels among bronze metal speech. Historical relation of bell-metal alloy neighborhood to bronze in that encyclopedia, not identity with every bronze and not pewter as the later tin-rich type refused here.

      from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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    mineral · 1
    practice · 1

    • Bronze is used in Medicine.

      Pliny’s Natural History treats bronze and copper-alloy rusts among metal remedies and related plasters. A Roman-era pharmacological use of the alloy and its corrosion products, not copper metal alone and not brass as a zinc alloy dump.

      from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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