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| This disk with the head of Acheloos, an Etruscan river god, was made of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, sometime in the early 5th century bc. It comes from the necropolis of Monte Quaglieri in Tarquinia. Alloys are made by smelting two different metals together. | ||||||
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| Scala/Art Resource, NY | ||||||
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| Etruscan Civilization; Ancient Rome; Bronze; Metalwork | ||||||
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