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品名（中）	铜锭
品名（英）	Copper ingot
入馆年号	1911年，11.140.7
策展部门	希腊和罗马艺术（Greek and Roman Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1450 - 公元前 1050
创作地区
分类	青铜器（Bronzes）
尺寸	宽: 14 3/8 英寸 (36.5 厘米) 长: 17 1/2 英寸 (44.5 厘米) Weight: 63 磅 (28.6 kg)
介绍（中）	塞浦路斯被认为是青铜时代晚期铜的主要生产国，尽管在那里发现了除微型还愿锭外的极少数锭。这种特殊形状的锭只在青铜时代晚期制造，似乎是纯铜作为原料运往东地中海港口的常见形式。铜与锡混合，通常以九比一的比例制成青铜成品，如相邻的支架（74.51.5684）。当纯铜在铸造金属的开放式模具中冷却时，产生了铸锭的不规则表面。锭的重量约为63磅，证明了当时铜工业的规模之大，以及正在交换的大量铜。在安纳托利亚海岸的乌鲁布伦发现了一艘青铜时代晚期沉船，船上装载了超过10吨的塞浦路斯铜锭，这一发现显著证实了塞浦路斯在其中扮演重要角色的广泛国际金属贸易。
介绍（英）	Cyprus is thought to have been the main producer of copper in the Late Bronze Age, although very few ingots, apart from miniature votive ingots, have been found there. Ingots of this characteristic shape were made only in the Late Bronze Age and seem to be the usual form in which pure copper was transported as a raw material to the ports of the eastern Mediterranean. Copper was mixed with tin, usually in a nine-to-one ration, to make finished bronze objects such as the adjacent stand (74.51.5684). The ingot's irregular surface was produced as the pure copper cooled in the open mold in which the metal was cast. The sheer weight of the ingot, approximately sixty-three pounds, is testimony to the large scale of the copper industry at this time and the bulk quantities of copper that were being exchanged. The discovery off the coast of Anatolia at Ulu Burun of a Late Bronze Age shipwreck with a cargo of over ten tons of Cypriot copper ingots provides remarkable confirmation of the extensive international metals trade in which Cyprus clearly played an important role.