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MARIANNA DÁGI: Training the Eye: Technical Details as Clues in the Attribution of Ancient Jewellery
the brow would refer to this process. Perhaps the rib below the chin also indicates join of sheet-edges (figs. 7/d., 7/h.). The nape was made from a separate piece of sheet, from which the back part of the ears was also molded. The front part of the ears was made from other separate sheet. Irregular punched dots decorate the nape (fig. 7/c). The eyes are indicated by holes pierced from outside. Chasing is used to form the large wrinkles around the eyes and on the cheek. Punching is applied to the curved row of dots above the eyes (fig. 7/g.), the tear-duct, the nostrils, the rosette decorating the brow and the fur in the wrinkles on the cheek. Tool-marks: a round-shaped punch-mark with U-section (arched row of dots above the eye, decoration on the nape, the nostrils, punched dots in the egg-pattern); half-round punch-mark with U-section (brow decoration); punch mark in the shape of a long, arched line with U-section (nostrils); mark of a U-sectioned chasing tool (wrinkles around the eyes). Condition: depressions are visible in several places at both sides of the head and on the connecting element. The surface of the gold has melted along the join of the structural elements and also the other solderings, and holes are visible in several places on the sheet. On these places reddish brown discolouring is visible. Some arches missing from the egg-pattern decorating the cylinder part. The surface of the strip-twisted wires of the hoop is so worn that it has become almost totally even. Parallels: Piérides 1971, 31-32, no. 1, pi. 21, fig. 1 (unknown provenance, 400-325 BC); 32, nos. 6-7, pl. 21, figs. 6-7 (unknown provenance, 400-325 BC); Pfrommer 1990, 391, OR 495a, pi. 25, fig. 6 right (from Egypt, second half of the third —perhaps beginning of the second century BC); OR 496 and 497 (from Tuch el-Karamus, second quarter or middle of the third century BC); OR 487, pi. 25, fig. 4 (from Egypt (?), end of the third-first half of the second century BC); OR 491, pi. 25, fig. 3 (from Egypt, third century BC); OR 495, pi. 25, fig. 6 left (from Egypt, second half of the third-perhaps beginning of the second century BC); Eubsen-Admiraal 2004, 289, no. 594; 290, no. 597; see also 288, no. 593; 289, no. 596 (from the ancient Marion, fourth-third century BC). Date: fourth-second century BC. Comment: presumably it was made in the same place like the pair of earrings nos. 5-6 (see the argumentation in Appendix I). 8. Bull's-head hoop earring (figs. 8/a-g.) Inv. no. 63.4.A. Measurements: inner diameter: 17x20.5 mm, outer diameter: 33.3x26 mm (without the modern hoop). Weight: 2.79 g. Material: gold. Provenance: from Mrs. Kelényi's collection. Bibliography: unpublished.
