09-29-2018, 08:10 PM
Jeffrey Hildebrandt has mentioned elsewhere that they must have applied something to the bronze to protect the finish, or armour would have been destroyed in a generation or two from polishing.. I have tried shellac with some success, but hard to say what originally was used --perhaps some kind of oil with dissolved beeswax?
Qui sepeliunt capita sua in terra, deos volantes non videbunt.
--Flavius FlavĀ