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(a) 93 per cent or more copper icons with minor alloying, represented by the samples 1-3 in Table 20.10. Swarnakamal (1980: 140-41) reported one seventh-eighth century AD. Viṣṇu with attendants from South India assaying 93.6 per cent Cu, 0.77 Sn, 1.66 Zn, 1.25 Pb and 0.87 Fe; also another ninth-tenth century AD Viṣṇu of the Cola period assaying 97.1 per cent Cu, 0.04 Sn, 1.0 Pb and 1.3 Fe.