Top: reproduction wax; bottom: detail showing copper lips, which were precast inlays, manufactured and set into the wax model prior to bronze casting. This method is suitable for more complex inlay shapes and profiles. Riace Bronze Statue A, Greek, ca. 460 BCE, H. 198 cm (Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia, Reggio Calabria, Italy). See Bertelli, Piero, Edilberto Formigli, Ferdinando Marinelli, Bernardino Morsani, and Alessandro Pacini. 2013. “Ricostruzioni di archeologia sperimentale.” In Colore e luce nella statuaria antica in bronzo, edited by Edilberto Formigli, 91–95. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider..