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

the nape are formed by chasing. The fur on the brow is embossed from the underside and decorated with punched dots. The nose is shaped sculpturally. Punched dots indicate the nostrils (fig. 5/d.). Tool-marks: round-shaped punch-mark with V-section (punched clots in the egg-pattern, the nostrils, the decoration of the brow-fur); straight line-like punch-mark with V(?)-section (three lines around the eve, ear hole); mark of a U-sectioned chasing tool (decoration of the nape, the wrinkles of the eyelid and the cheek). Condition: the sheet is torn on several places along the embossed parts (behind the ears, on the brow). Reddish discolouring visible along the solderings. Repair work contemporaneous with the making of the earring can be found at the bottom of the left horn (fig. 5/k.) and at the edge of the nape (fig. 5/1.): a rectangular patch of sheet gold. 5/j 5/k 5/1 ANCIENT REPAIRS ON MEAD OE BULL'S-HEAD HOOP EARRING WITH COMPLEX CONNECTING ELEMENT 6. Inv. no. 55.158.2 (6/a-h.) Hoop and connecting element: as on piece no. 5. The piece of sheet covering the join of the edges of the base-sheet of the truncated cone part is missing at the ball-part. Head: as on piece no. 5. As can clearly be seen, the rib under the chin is in fact a join. This strengthens the supposition that the head was made from two halves (fig. 6/g.). Tool-marks: round-shaped punch-mark with V-section (punched dots in the egg-pattern, nostrils, decoration of the brow-fur); straight line-like punch-mark with V(?)-section (three lines around the eye, ear hole); mark of a U-sectioned chasing tool (decoration of the nape, wrinkles of the eyelid and cheek). Condition: the sheet is torn on several places along the embossed parts (behind the ears, on the brow). Reddish discolouring visible along the solderings. The ball-shaped part stoved in. Repair work contemporaneous with the production of the earring can be found at the edge of the ball-shaped part at the truncated cone: a patch on one of the narrowing cuts (fig. 6/e.). 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