Lebes
Cleveland Museum of Art

Lebes

c. 480–460 BCE

bronze
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The green surface found on old bronze is a corrosion product formed when copper in the metal reacts to carbon dioxide and water.

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