Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

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

Weight: 2.4 g; 2.4 g. Material: gold. Provenance: from the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Bibliography: Oroszlán-Dobrovits 1947, 27, no. 9, pi. 19; J. Gy. Szilágyi and L. Castiglione, Görög-római kiállítás. Vezető, Budapest 1955, pl. 21; J. Gy. Szilágyi and L. Castiglione, Görög-római kiállítás. Vezető, Budapest 1961 and 1965, pl. 17 tig. 2; J. Gy Szilágyi and M. Szabó, Antik kiállítás. Vezető, Budapest 1974, 63, fig. 40; J. Gy. Szilágyi, Antik művészet. A Szépművészeti Múzeum kiállítása, Budapest 1988, 48, fig. 43. 5. Inv. no. 55.158.1 (figs. 5/a-l.) Hoop: made from an embossed strip of sheet gold and two strip-twisted (or spool?) wires twisted alternately around a base-tube. Their ends worked together into a single plain tapering wire the tip of which is bent back like a hook. This catches in the catch-ring under the bull's chin. The catch-ring made from a strip of sheet gold. Connecting element: complex connecting element composed of three parts, namely a truncated cone, a ball-shaped, and a cylinder. The side of the truncated cone at the hoop is decorated with a row of long arches made from strip-twisted (spool?) wires, while the side nearest the ball-shaped part is embellished with egg-pattern. There are two strip-twisted wires soldered to the open end of both rows of arches. A rib embossed in a separate sheet soldered between the two wires. The edge of the base-sheet of the truncated cone is scalloped to precisely fit the egg-pattern decoration. A dot punched inside the arches of the eggpattern from the underside of the base-sheet (fig. 5/a-c). A strip of sheet soldered above the join of the edges of the truncated cone's base-sheet below at the egg-pattern decoration to cover it (repair?; fig. 5/j.). The ball-shaped part made from a piece of sheet bent into the shape of a barrel with use ot narrow ing cuts (fig. 5/e.; for detailed notes on how it was made see Appendix I). Nearest the ball-shaped part, the edge of the cylinder is also decorated with egg-pattern with the base-sheet scalloped, and dots are punched inside the arches. One strip-twisted wire is soldered to the open end of the egg-pattern and also the join of the cylinder part and the head. An embossed rib is placed between the two wires (figs. 5/f., 5/i.). Head: embossed with matrix (?) from two halves (?). Traces of the join of the sheet-edges on and above the nose would point to this process. Perhaps the rib below the chin also indicates join of sheet-edges (figs. 5/d., 5/g.). The nape is made from a separate piece of sheet. The back part of the horns formed from this piece of sheet, while the front part is made from other separate sheet. Probably the ears are shaped sculpturally from the sheet of the head. The ear holes are punched. The eyes are indicated by holes pierced from outside. Around them are three short straight punched lines: one indicates the tear-duct, the other defines the corner of the eye, and the third lies just between the other two. The wrinkles above the eyes are made by embossing and chasing, the wrinkles on the cheek and the neck, and the long wavy lines on