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
(from Egypt, second half of the third —perhaps beginning of the second century BC); OR 496 és 497, pl. 25, fig. 1 (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); Lubsen-Admiraal 2004, 289, no. 594; see also 288, no. 593; 289, no. 596; 290, no. 597 (from the ancient Marion, fourth-third century BC). Date: fourth-second century BC. Comment: according to old photographs, the bull's left eye originally contained a whitish inlay. Presumably it was made in the same place as earring no. 7 (see the argumentation in Appendix I). 7. Bull's-head hoop earring (figs. 7/a-j.) Inv. no. 55.198. Aleasurements: inner diameter: 16.9x12.5 mm, outer diameter: 24.5x19.7 mm. Weight: 1.5 g. Alaterial: gold. Provenance: from the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Bibliography: Oroszlán-Dobrovits 1947, 27, no. 9. Hoop: made from two plain and two strip-twisted wires twisted alternately together. The ends worked together into a single plain tapering wire caught in the catch-ring under the bull's chin. The catch-ring is made from a strip of sheet gold. Connecting element: complex connecting element composed of three parts, namely a truncated cone, a ballshaped and a cylinder. The side of the truncated cone towards the hoop is decorated with a row of long arches made from strip-twisted wire, and the side nearest the ball-shaped part is embellished with eggpattern. Between them there are two plain and one strip-twisted filigree wires. The edge of the base-sheet of the truncated cone was scalloped to fit the egg-pattern decoration. A dot is punched inside the arches of the egg-pattern from the underside of the base-sheet (fig. 7/f). The ball-shaped part is made from a piece of sheet bent into the shape of a barrel with us of narrowing cuts (fig. 7/e.; for detailed notes on the way it was made, see Appendix I). Nearest the ball-shaped part, the edge of the cylinder is also decorated with egg-pattern made from strip-twisted wires, and dots are punched inside the arches. The edge of the basesheet is scalloped to fit the arches of the egg-pattern. One plain and one strip-twisted wire is soldered to the open end of the egg-pattern, and one strip-twisted wire to the join of the cylinder part and the head. Between the wires a rib is embossed into the base-sheet from the underside (figs. 7/f., 7/j). Head: embossed with matrix (?) from two halves (?). Traces of the join of the sheet-edges on the nose and
