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
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 is clearly visible (figs. 2/h— i.). A pair of wires —one strip-twisted and one plain filigree —is soldered to the open end of the row 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 and nose (fig. 2/d.). The back part of the horns and the nape are made from a separate piece of sheet. The eyes are indicated by holes pierced from outside. There are some remains of iridescent whitish glass inlay in the right eye. The ears are indicated by a leaf-shaped punch-mark (figs. 2/e-fi). Chasing was applied to make the wrinkles on the cheek and above the eyes, and the fur on the nape, and punching to make the fur under the eyes, the rosette on the brow, as well as the nostrils. Tool-marks: crescent-shaped punch-mark with U-section (nostrils); punch mark in the shape of a long, arched line with U-section (rosette on the brow); leaf-shaped punch-mark with U-section (ears); roundshaped punch-mark with U-section (at bottom of ear); straight line-like punch-mark with U-section (corner of the eye and tear-ducts); mark of a U-sectioned chasing tool (lines on nape and around eye). Condition: the whole surface of the connecting element melted. The decoration melted almost into the base-sheet, which has holes in several places from extreme heat. The end of the connecting element towards the hoop squashed on the bottom. Almost the whole surface of the head melted. The fur-row under the eye is hardly visible. Parallels: Piérides 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); Pfrommer 1990, 394, OR 533, 534, 535, pi. 25, fig. 7 (from Alarion, second century BC). For the same pieces, see Greifenhagen 1975, pi. 44, figs. 14-18 (ca. third century BC); Lubsen-Admiraal 2004, 290, no. 599 (from the ancient Marion, fourth-third century BC). Date: fourth-second century BC. Comment: the counterpart of earring no. 1 (see argumentation in Appendix I). 3-4. Pair of bull's-head hoop earrings (figs. 3/a-o., 4/a-k.) Inv. no. 55499.1-2. ^Measurements: inner diameter: 18.3 x 16.6 mm, outer diameter: 21.1 x25.5 mm; inner diameter: 16.9x 16.6 mm, outer diameter: 19.8x26.5 mm. Weight: 1.8 g; 1.8 g. Material: gold, glass(?). Provenance: from the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Bibliography: Oroszlán-Dobrovits 1947, 27, no. 9.
