Про техніку виготовлення псевдокручених джгутів пекторалі з Товстої Могили

• Published in: Археологія і давня історія України
• Date: 2022
• ISSN: 2227-4952
• Main Author: Бабенко, Л.І.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Інститут археології НАН України 2022
• Subjects: Статті
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/187573
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Про техніку виготовлення псевдокручених джгутів пекторалі з Товстої Могили / Л.І. Бабенко // Археологія і давня історія України: Зб. наук. пр. — К.: ІА НАН України, 2022. — Вип. 1 (42). — С. 19-32. — Бібліогр.: 51 назв. — укр.

У статті наводиться реконструкція технічних прийомів, використаних майстром при виготовленні псевдокручених джгутів пекторалі з Товстої
 Могили. The pectoral from the Tovsta Mohyla is an astonishing
 artifact which gathered different technical ways of Hellenic
 jewelry art. During this jewelry, which is composed of
 more than 160 details, a few dozens of different technical
 operations had been used. Till that time the less understood
 thing is a complex of ways that have been used by
 a craftsman during manufacturing of four pseudo-twisted
 hollow wisps, that framed figured pectoral friezes. None
 of the proposed reconstructions doesn’t give clear understanding
 on the most important elements of the technologic
 process of manufacture of the wisps, namely — technical
 operations used by an artisan for obtaining the verisimilar
 relief of a twisted wisp on hollow tubes.
 A definite clue for resolving this question can be given
 by construction of the torque from the Kul-Oba burial,
 a wisp of which consisted of a bronze twisted stem covered
 with a gold plate. Such construction could generate
 the idea of the manufacturing of hollow relief wisps with
 twisting imitation. To obtain them the craftsman twisted
 a wisp matrix from seven bronze wires. On that wisp
 a heat sealed tube rolled of thin gold sheet was placed.
 By the means of the basma technique — by pressure of
 wooden, bony or metal tools on a gold sheet, a twisted
 relief was squeezed at the tube. Then the tube was unscrewed
 from the matrix by turning around its radial
 axis towards a thinner tip of the matrix.
 The torque from the Solokha burial mount also has
 similar wisp construction. It stands for the fact of using
 identical technology during their manufacturing and of
 possible manufacturing of the pectoral and the torque
 by goldsmiths of the same workshop, or even by the
 same artisan.