Japano-italian international investigations on the large-size ancient bronze statuaries and fragments conserved in the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia di Reggio Calabria

技术调查是如何制作的，古希腊青铜雕像的杰作（公元前5年，雷吉欧卡拉布里亚国家考古博物馆）。在此期间，我们前往欧洲五次，直接研究了Riace青铜器和大约40个古代青铜雕塑。从两尊青铜器身上提取的铸芯粘土和作为手脚固定材料的铅也进行了检查和分析。根据所获得的知识，我们制作了丽雅斯青铜器的原始模型，用粘土-石膏-塑料，打算在接下来的实验中使用所谓的古代技术重建整个雕像。在工作中，我们推断和想象了最初的希腊雕塑家在制作他们的原始模型时所遵循的实际程序。他们制作蜡模型的方法基本上被认为是间接的失蜡铸造工艺。

Technical investigations were carried out into how the Riace Warriors were fabricated, the masterpieces of the Ancient Greek Bronze Statuary (5th c. B.C., Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Reggio Calabria).During the period we travelled in Europe five times for the direct research on the Riace Bronzes and ca. 40 ancient bronze sculptures. Casting core clay extracted out of the bodies of the two Bronzes and lead served as fixing materials in both hands and feet were also examined and analyzed. Based on the acquired knowledge, we manufactured our original models of the Riace Bronzes, in clay-plaster-plastic, intended to serve in the following experimental reconstruction of the whole statues with the supposed ancient techniques. During the work we deduced and imagined the practical procedures followed by the original Greek sculptors in making their original models. Their method of making wax model has been assumed as essentially indirect lost-wax casting process for both Bronzes.