Chemical Composition: ICP-MS/AAA data from sample, Bronze:
Cu, 93.3; Sn, 6.22; Pb, 0.12; Zn, 0.027; Fe, 0.24; Ni, 0.04; Ag, 0.03; Sb, less than 0.02; As, less than 0.10; Bi, less than 0.025; Co, 0.028; Au, less than 0.01; Cd, less than 0.001
J. Riederer
Technical Observations: The patina is a very rough green corrosion over a gray and brown surface. The handle is missing except for the ends where it attached to the body, and there are large areas of loss in the lower portion of body. There is also a deformation in the side of body and an ancient repair at the rim. Modern strips of copper were used to reinforce the weakened body.
The pitcher was fabricated by hammering to raise the sides and form the shape with the areas of loss corresponding to heavily worked sections. The rim has a design hammered into it. The ends of the handle, which are now mineralized, may have been made from sheet metal rather than cast and were attached with rivets. There is an ancient repair to a crack in the rim next to the rivets that is very similar in appearance. The interior shows interesting vertical striations in the corrosion that may be some sort of pseudomorph.
Carol Snow and Nina Vinogradskaya (submitted 2002)
