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.

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 Bust ( sculpture ) | portrait bust said to be of Josephus

Roman bust of Sappho, copied from a lost Hellenistic original in Istanbul Archaeological Museum

A partial marble bust ( sculpture ) | bust of Chrysippus, Roman era | Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, Louvre Museum

A Roman imperial bust of Faunus found in 1820 in Vienne ( France ).

* Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head: said to be a bust in the Classical Roman style, found in a burial offering under three intact floors of a pre-colonial building dated between 1476 and 1510.

Numerous variations of the Washington bust were produced, portraying him variously as a general in uniform, in the classical manner showing chest musculature, and as Roman Consul Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus clad in a toga.

Pindar, Roman copy of Greek 5th century BC bust ( Naples National Archaeological Museum | Museo Archeologica Nazionale, Naples )

Damaged Roman copy of a bust of Seleucus I, Louvre

A Roman Empire | Roman imperial bust of Faunus

On the portico leading to the Domed Hall is positioned a bust of the Roman Emperor Augustus.

The important works which have perished include the uncompleted chalice intended for Clement VII ; a gold cover for a prayer book as a gift from Pope Paul III to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor – both described at length in his autobiography ; large silver statues of Jupiter, Vulcan and Mars, wrought for Francis I during his sojourn in Paris ; a bust of Julius Caesar ; and a silver cup for the cardinal of Ferrara.

One of her last public appearances was in April 1985, when she attended the dedication of a bust in her honor at St. John's ( Roman Catholic ) Hospital in Santa Monica, California, for which her foundation, The Irene Dunne Guild, had raised more than $ 20 million.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king ( with an older head from 1746 ), with the legend, while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend — King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king ( with an " intermediate head " in 1739 and 1740, and an older head from 1748 ), with the legend ( in 1739 and 1740 ), while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend -- King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king with the legend ( between 1740 and 1745 ), while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend -- King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

In 192, he issued a series of coins depicting his bust clad in a lion-skin ( the usual depiction of Hercules ) on the obverse, and an inscription proclaiming that he was the Roman incarnation of Hercules on the reverse.

It was designed by Jan Boskem and featured a Roman bust of William crowned with a laurel and an aerial battle between a falcon and a stork.

In The Robe he commissioned a Grecian bust which appears prominently in a Roman villa.

** Antinous Mondragone, a bust of Antinous found in the Roman villa.

Roman marble Meleager of Skopas | head of Meleager, after Scopas, on a restored bust ( British Museum ).