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MARIANNA DÁGI: Training the Eye: Technical Details as Clues in the Attribution of Ancient Jewellery
on the brow and nostrils, and chasing applied to form the wrinkles on the cheek and above the eyes, as well as the fur on the nape. Tool-marks: crescent-shaped punch-mark with U-section (nostrils); punch mark in the shape of a long, arched line with U-section in two sizes (the hair-row under the eve is smaller, the rosette on the brow is larger); leaf-shaped punch-mark with U-section (ears); round-shaped punch-mark with U-section (at the bottom of the ear); straight line-like punch-mark with U-section (the corner of the eye and the tearduct); mark of a U-sectioned chasing tool (lines on the nape and around the eye). Condition: in several places, the reddish discolouring along the solderings is probably due to the high copper content ot the solder. The surface of the sheet melted along the solderings on the hoop at the place where the strips come apart, at the join of the hoop and the connecting element, below the bull's chin, and also in several other places. The surface of the wires is worn, or melted, or both. Parallels: A. Piérides, Jewellery in the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia 1971, 32, no. 8, pi. 21, fig. 8 (unknown provenance, 400-325 BC; 33, no. 9, pi. 21, fig. 9 (unknown provenance, 400-325 BC); M. Pfrommer, Untersitchungen zur Chronologie früh- und hochhellenistischen Goldschmucks, Tübingen 1990, 394, OR 533, 534, 535, pl. 25, hg. 7 (from Marion, second century BC). For the same pieces, see A. Greifenhagen, Schmuckarbeiten in Edelmetall, Band II Einzelstücke, Berlin 1975, pl. 44, figs. 14-18 (ca. third century BC); St. M. Lubsen-Admiraal, Ancient Cypriote Art. The Thanos N. Zintilis Collection, Athens 2004, 290, no. 599 (from the ancient Alarion, fourth-third century BC). Date: fourth-second century BC. Comment: counterpart of earring no. 2 (see argumentation in Appendix I). 2. Bull's-head hoop earring (figs. 2/a-k.) Inv. no. 55.176. Aleasurements: inner diameter: 14.6x15.4 mm, outer diameter: 17.1x25.1 mm. Weight: 1 g. Material: gold, glass. Provenance: from the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Bibliography: Z. Oroszlán and A. Dobrovits, Antik kiállítás. Vezető, Budapest 1947, 27, no. 9. Hoop: made from three embossed strips of sheet gold twisted around a base-tube. Their ends are worked together into a single plain tapering wire. The strips come apart at one place and here are soldered to the base-tube. This is indicated by the fact that the surface of the gold has melted. The tapering end of the hoop caught in the catch-ring under the bull's chin. The catch-ring was made from a strip of sheet gold. Connecting element: simple connecting element composed of a base-sheet which was folded in the shape of
