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veying.) An instrument for taking angles. Stat′u-a-ry-brass. An alloy of copper, zinc, and tin, used for statuary, generally known as bronze. The proportions of the metals used are indefinite. Analyses of Keller's statues at Versailles give copper, 91.4; zinc, 5.53; tin, 1.7; lead, 1.37. Gun-metal, containing copper 9, tin 1, is frequently employed See brass; bronze; alloy. Stat′u-a-ry-cast′ing. Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus refer to massive statues set up in the temple of Belus, in Babylon, at a date supposed to be about 2230 B. C. The massive statues of Memnon, Osymandyas, and other Egyptian kings, are of stone, and attest a great degree of skill, so that it becomes impossible to determine when the arts of modeling and sculpture were invented in or introduced into the land of the Nile. The Egyptian statuettes are frequently of metal. The Roman Colossus set up by Nero, being a figure of himself, was placed before his Golden House, near the site of the temple of<