Talk:Orichalcum

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There's a reference (in the line about the series Slayers under "In television and movies") to a "god-like diety". If nobody can explain to me how this isn't redundant, I'm going to change it in a few days. I'll also fix the period hidden in the quotes there, which I wish I'd noticed before making my other update. --Suttkus 12:57, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

An alternative way of understanding the word, "oreichalkos" (or orichalcum), would be to assume that it came from Greek word "orao" (meaning to see or look... to let oneself be seen, appear), "chalkos" (meaning copper... bronze). Put together they could mean: "seeing-copper", "looking-copper", or "transparent copper". Transparent means "through-appearing" but it is not the transparent thing that "appears": the transparent thing allows another object to be seen through it. Oreichalkos—"seeing copper" or "looking copper"—could be used to fuse to other substances that allowed people to look into objects or through them. It is possible that if energy is passed through it; it could give the desired effect of flashing red. [1] [2]

The following was deleted by someone: "The fourth-century Imperial Roman sceptres discovered by Clementina Panella's team, hidden in a wooden box on the lower slope of the Palatine Hill in Rome, have hand-holds of orichalcum, according to early reports." An irresponsible deletion, or is there something in this that escapes me? --Wetman 07:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

If it's a bit of a rum statement. If, as the article makes clear, nobody knows what orichalcum is, how can anyone claim a certain find is made of it? --Suttkus 04:22, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, yes: perhaps Clementina Panella's team don't know what they're talking about. That certainly does seem to have motivated the deletion. --Wetman 05:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)