"The twentieth International Congress on Ancient bronzes was held from April 17 to 21, 2018, at the Institute for Classical Archaeology of Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen..."--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references.
Papers in English, French, German, and Italian.
Preface / Carol C. Mattusch -- Vorwort / Philipp Baas -- part 1. Reconstruction. Innovation and tradition - Greek bronzecasting workshops / Gerhard Zimmer -- Casting large statuary in classical antiquity: thoughts from India and Egypt / Paul Craddock -- Past and recent metal analyses of the Germanicus statue from Amelia / Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, John Pollini -- The Brescia Winged Victory: ongoing diagnostic work, conservation treatment and restoration / Francesca Morandini, Stefania Agnoletti, Annalena Brini, Andrea Cagnini, Monica Galeotti, Anna Patera, Simone Porcinai -- Projet d'une nouvelle étude technologique de l'Aurige de Delphes: les premiers résultats / Sophie Descamps-Lequime, Benoît Mille, Nancy Psalti -- The Bronze Antikythera Ephebe revisited: technical features and casting technique / Kosmas A. Dafas -- Bronze cast on decorated iron sheets. an unusual manufacturing technique in Iron Age Italy / Joachim Weidig, Nicola Bruni, Fabio Fazzini -- Artful illumination: technical study of four Hellenistic bronze lamps from the eastern Black Sea site of Vani / Jeffrey Maish, David Saunders, Nino Kalandadze, Marc Walton -- Corinthian helmets in the Hermitage Museum / Nadezda Gulyaeva -- A new look at an old technology: insights into the metallurgy of tin bronze during the Iron Age of Luristan / Omid Oudbashi -- Drahtziehen in der Bronzezeit? Zu den drei Ziehbronzen aus dem Hort von Isleham, Cambridgeshire / Ilyas Özșen -- Bronze Circulation in the Aegean in the 2nd millennium BC: technological investigations of bronze finds from the Minoan Peak Sanctuary at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, Kythera / Emilia Banou, Aikaterini Panagopoulou -- La Tomba Principesca di Roscigno: Greci e indigeni nelle élites dell'Italia Meridionale / Silvia Pacifico, Rossella Luciano -- Authepsa: a singular brass container from Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). History and interpretation of the object / Rafael Sabio González, Cristina Isabel Mena Méndez -- Technology matters: the Kal-e Chendar bronze statuary from the Seleucid to the Parthian Periods / Gunvor Lindström -- part 2. Resource. How the Greeks manipulated the composition of their bronze coins. Case studies / Maryse Blet-Lemarquand -- Corinthian bronze: was it just wrought high-tin bronze? / Jean-Marie Welter -- Fragments of large-scale bronze statues in context of so-called scrap metal deposits in Dacia and Moesia Inferior / Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu -- Roman bronze vessels with signs of repair from Sarmatia / Mikhail Treister -- Recycling economy in the production of Roman bronze statues from the Limes Region. Results of the Research Project "Roman bronze statues from the UNESCO World Heritage Limes" / Frank Willer, Roland Schwab, Manuela Mirschenz -- part 3. Representation. Tre bronzi greci da Porticello (Reggio Calabria) / Fabiano Fiorello Di Bella -- Roman bronzes of Augusta Emerita (Hispania). Representation: iconography and models / Trinidad Nogales Basarrate, José María Murciano Calles -- Who was in charge of fastening bronze statues on their bases? A case study of two classical-group bases from Delphi / Rachel Nouet -- Scharnier, Tülle oder Zapfen. Beobachtungen an hellenistischen Bronzelampen mit Statuettendekor / Norbert Franken -- Iconografie "funerarie" nella piccola plastica bronzea romana / Margherita Bolla -- Small objects, multiple perspectives: the case of the Genius of Grumentum / Giulia Bison -- From the Roman noblemen to the European connoisseurs: the "Paramythia bronzes" and the allure of the Antique / Antonia Tzortzatou -- Collecting bronzes in an early twentieth-century American Museum of Natural Science and Anthropology / Philip Kiernan -- part 4. Role. Geometric bronze animal figurines at Olympia - who dedicated what and why? / András Patay-Horváth -- Bronzegefässe von Olympia: Ritual und Repräsentation, Statusänderung und Deponierung / Beat Schweizer -- Pinakes, Waffen und Statuen--Zur öffentlichen Präsentation von Bronzen am Aussenbau griechischer Peripteraltempel / Daphni Doepner -- A bronze foundry of Classical times in the sanctuary at Kalapodi (Central Greece) / Johanna Fuchs -- Copper-based offerings from the sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena at Sounion, Attica: typological and analytical investigation / Zetta Theodoropoulou Polychroniadis, Vana Orfanou -- Bronzes of Arcadian Orchomenos: a review of old and new finds / Stamatis A. Fritzilas -- Paphian obstacles to powerful death. A set of surgical tools found in the Agora of Paphos / Maciej Wacławik -- About Löwenkannen: la Löwenkanne del Museo Archeologico di Verona / Marina Castoldi -- Bronze vessels from the Etruscan Necropolises of Bologna (540 - 350 BC): preliminary notes / Giulia Morpurgo -- The kegs from the "Celtic" graves of Santa Paolina di Filottrano. Misadventures and misunderstandings / Nicoletta Frapiccini -- Bronzeobjekte aus der römischen Garküche auf dem Monte Iato (PA) / Eva Riediker-Liechti -- Roman bronzes of Augusta Emerita (Spain). A functional approach / Nova Barrero Martín, Rafael Sabio Ganzález