The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

Bronze was still used during the Iron Age ; for example, officers in the Roman army had bronze swords while foot soldiers had iron ; but, for many purposes, the weaker wrought iron was found to be sufficiently strong.

Cosmas and Damiano, in Rome, are important examples of Roman metal work of the best period ; they are in two leaves, each with two panels, and are framed in bronze.

Two other bronze doors of the Roman period are in the Lateran Basilica.

The traditional Roman fasces consisted of a bundle of birch rods, tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder, and often including a bronze axe ( or sometimes two ) amongst the rods, with the blade ( s ) on the side, projecting from the bundle.

In the New Testament period, the only golden coin, the aureus, was worth approximately 3, 200 of the smallest bronze coin, the lepton ( translated into Latin as minuti ); while the Roman standard silver coin, the denarius, was worth 128 leptons.

The Roman bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, of the late first century BC found at Herculaneum is now thought not to be of Seneca the Younger.

His 11th feat was to capture the apple of Hesperides ( Gilded bronze, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE )

Hermes Fastening his Sandal, early Imperial Roman marble copy of a Lysippus | Lysippan bronze ( Louvre Museum )

Adriaen de Vries, Mercury and Psyche Northern Mannerist life-size bronze, made in 1593 for Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor

Finds included a silver coin of Marcia ( 124BC ), pottery, weapons and tools, bronze ornaments, and Roman coins from Vespasian to Valentinian II.

The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, commissioned some time between 230 BC – 220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians

In the Roman Empire, bronze and silver forks were used, indeed many examples are displayed in museums around Europe.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

In 1915, a perfectly preserved iron and bronze Roman cavalry helmet, known as the Nijmegen Helmet, was uncovered on the left bank of the Waal in Nijmegen.

A Roman copy of the original bronze is now kept in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, Italy ( approximate date ).

In 2007, a Roman art | Roman-era bronze sculpture of " Artemis and the Stag " was sold at Sotheby's in New York for United States dollar | US $ 28. 6 million, by far exceeding its estimates and at the time setting the new record as List of most expensive sculptures | the most expensive sculpture as well as work from antiquity ever sold at auction.

No copy in marble or bronze has survived, though there are recognizable but approximate versions on coins of nearby Elis and on Roman coins and engraved gems.

Roman Seated Zeus, marble and bronze ( restored ), following the type established by Phidias ( Hermitage Museum )

Roman bronze crowns have also been found, but their use could have been more aesthetic than medical.

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Roman bronze reduction of Myron's Discobolos, 2nd century CE ( Glyptothek, Munich )

At Thebes in Boeotia there are more varied finds than on Lemnos ; they include many little bronze votive bulls and which carry on into Roman times, when the traveller Pausanias, always alert to the history of cults, learned that it was Demeter Kabeiriia who instigated the initiation cult there in the name of Prometheus and his son Aitnaios.

A Roman boundary ditch and posthole has been found just off Nethergate Street ; a strap fitting, coins, sepulchral urns and a bronze figurine of Mercury or a dancing boy have been unearthed in various locations.

Roman Bronze figurine, Öland, Sweden

For the first time, Northern European kings patronized classical Mediterranean Roman art forms, blending classical forms with Germanic ones, creating entirely new innovations in figurine line drawing, and setting the stage for the rise of Romanesque art and, eventually, Gothic art in the West.

Roman aureus depicting Agrippina and Claudius, c. 50 / 54

Roman sestertius depicting Caligula, c. AD 38.

The book has generated controversy for depicting religious fanaticism and mob violence among early Christians in Roman Egypt.

Roman coin depicting election

A Roman denarius depicting Elagabalus.

The reverse reads Fides Exercitus, or The loyalty of the army, depicting the Roman goddess Fides ( goddess ) | Fides between two Roman army Aquila ( Roman ) | standards.

A Roman aureus depicting Elagabalus.

Roman denarius depicting Aquilia Severa, the second wife of Elagabalus.

A late Roman statue Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs | depicting the four Tetrarchs, now in Venice

1929 Belgium | Belgian banknote, depicting Ceres ( Roman mythology ) | Ceres, Neptune ( mythology ) | Neptune and caduceus.

The temple and the surrounding precinct were adorned with numerous statues depicting Hadrian, the gods and personifications of the Roman provinces.

While it was not necessarily a Roman invention, Plautus did develop his own style of depicting the clever slave.

Roman aureus depicting Elagabalus.

Tabula Iliaca, a 1st-century BC Roman bas-relief depicting scenes from Trojan War narratives

In Book 8, Aeneas allies with King Evander, who occupies the future site of Rome, and is given new armor and a shield depicting Roman history.

Detail from an early 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus depicting the death of Meleager

It is a true open-air museum, with Roman and medieval pillars, sarcophagi depicting the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the other the rape of Proserpina, a fourteenth-century sarcophagus and fragments of the façade of the Duomo.

Roman denarius depicting Titus, c. 79.

A Good Friday procession in Mumbai by Christianity in India | Indian Roman Catholics, depicting the Way of the Cross

Pair of Roman statuettes ( 3rd century AD ) depicting the Dioscuri as horsemen, with their characteristic skullcaps ( Metropolitan Museum of Art )

On the other hand there are many beautiful châteaux in the Bordeaux region still depicting this Roman villa style of architecture, an example of this being Château Lagorce in Haux.

Roman statue of Polyhymnia, 2nd century AD, depicting her in the act of dancing.

Selznick thought that it was not Dalí's fault, for his work was much finer and much better for the purpose than he ever thought it would be, and although much of Dalí's work was used, one dream sequence depicting Bergman turning into a statue of the Roman goddess Diana was cut.