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MARIANNA DÁGI: Training the Eye: Technical Details as Clues in the Attribution of Ancient Jewellery

írom the edge of the short sides of the sheet. The sheet elaborated in this way was bent into the shape of a cylinder, the goldsmith slipping the edges of the sheet over each other at the narrowing cuts. This resulted a barrel-shaped form open at both ends. The truncated cone and the cylinder parts of the connecting element were pulled over the ends of this barrel-shaped form, and soldered on it. So, finally, only a ball can be seen at the centre of the connecting element. On the basis of the above-mentioned details, the earrings nos. 5-6 and 7 were presumably made in the same place. APPENDIX il GROUP OF EARRINGS WITH SIMPLE CONNECTING ELEMENT 1. Bull's-head hoop earring (figs. 1/a-k.) Inv. no. 55.53. A4easurements: inner diameter: 14.5x14.1 mm, outer diameter: 17.5x23 mm. Weight: 1 g. Material: gold. Provenance: from the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Bibliography: unpublished. Hoop: made from three embossed strips of sheet gold twisted around a base-tube. The ends of the strips were worked together into a single plain tapering wire. The strips come apart at one place, and here they are soldered to the base-tube. The thin end of the hoop is caught in the catch-ring soldered under the bull's chin. The catch-ring is made from a strip of sheet gold. Connecting element: simple connecting element composed of a base-sheet folded in the shape of a truncated cone. It is divided into two parts by the decoration. At the hoop, a row of long arches made from strip-twisted filigree wires is soldered onto the sheet. The edge of the sheet is scalloped to fit the arches. The angularity of the cut and the serrated edge of the sheet are clearly visible (fig. 1/i.). A pair of wires, one strip-twisted and one plain filigree, is soldered to the open end of the arches and also to the join of the head and the connecting element. The pediment-shaped section surrounded by these wires is left undecorated. Head: the head was embossed with a matrix (?) from a circular sector or pie-piece shaped sheet:- the join of the edges of the sheet is visible on the bull's brow (fig. 1/d.). The hack part of the horns and the nape are made from a separate piece of sheet. The eyes are indicated by holes pierced from outside, the ears by a leaf-shaped punch-mark (figs. 1/e-f). Punching used for marking of fur under the eyes, the rosette