Silver plated or gold?
How were they plating without current ?
Not sure, but have a friend that works in antiquities in Cairo. He has shown drawings using electric eels in tanks as batteries.
” how were they plating with out plating?”
Using the local equivalent of Baghdad batteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
Says gilded. Is that different?
Here is a reference of his comments from twitter related to this.
https://twitter.com/EagleShery/status/1242208017468309506
This is not the info he sent me that referenced electric eels. That may have been from a direct message. I looked at that, he has removed all but the most recent of those.
It does show a mummified fish that he says was an electric fish.
He is an interesting guy. Knows a lot about the Middle East.
My question, too. Is there a plating process other than electroplating? All the way back in the days of the Exodus, things were PLATED or OVERLAID with gold or other metals. But that was just working a layer of the metal on to a wooden or other substrate using hammers and other instruments. That was not plating as we know it.