black Corinthian bronze
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Verres had not yet handed to the state his collection of Corinthian bronzes.

It is referred to in various ancient texts, but no known examples of Corinthian bronze exist today.

According to Pliny, the method of making it, like that for Corinthian bronze, had been lost for a long time.

This black metal is possibly a variety of the "Corinthian bronze" described by Pliny and Plutarch.

The gates of the Temple of Jerusalem used Corinthian bronze made by depletion gilding.

Pliny describes a much sought-after metal called Corinthian bronze, an alloy of copper with gold and silver, which took on a purplish hue.

Plutarch and Cicero both comment that Corinthian bronze, unlike many other copper alloys, is resistant to tarnishing.

Corinthian bronze, also called Corinthian brass or æs Corinthiacum, was a highly valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity.

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.

As far as we know, the ancients intended their metalwork, both artistic and utilitarian, to be kept in a brightly polished metallic state, with the possible exception of special alloys such as Corinthian bronze.

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.