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

division of labour, these marks might identify either the goldsmith who made the additional part, or the one who made the entire piece of jewellery. SEKIES-PRODUCKD JEWELLERY: jewellery to suit the general taste and produced in large numbers, but still hand-crafted in antiquity. In modern times this term is used for machine-made jewellery. SIMPLE CONNECTING ELEMENT: a variety of the connecting element composed of a single part. In animalhead earrings, a single base-sheet was used, onto which further decoration might be soldered. SPOOL WIRE: wire which resembles a line of small spools. It was made by rolling a longitudinal tool with a V-shaped edge held at an oblique angle over plain wire. SIR IP-TWISTED WIRE: wire made from a strip of sheet metal twisted around its longitudinal axis without rolling between flat slabs. Its surface therefore looks like a series of tiny spools. STRUCTURAL ELEMENT: the main parts or elements which make up the structure of the jeweller}: e.g. in the case of animal-head hoop earrings the structural elements are the head, the connecting element and the hoop. TIN-LEAD OR SOLE SOLDER: a kind of solder with a low melting temperature for "soft soldering" (soldering carried out at a low temperature). Under heat, gold melts away from the soft solder patch. The traditional soft solder is an alloy of tin and lead.