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.
