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iii.15 iii.16 iii.17 details of the toolmarks on the monteleone chariot: iii.15 on the woman’s chiton on the central panel. iii.16 on the shield on the proper right panel. iii.17 – iii.18 on the spots and the eyebrow of the panther on the central panel. iii.19 on the feathers of the eagle on the draft pole 52 iii.18 iii.19 Figures iii.13– iii.15), whereas the collaborator generally hammered the tool in a single direction (Figure iii.28). a totally different working method is observed in the side friezes (cats. 11, 12). The repoussé work is finished with chasing and a tracing tool with a different point, and it appears thicker and shorter (see Figures iii.34 – iii.37). The rectangular rather than triangular shape of the strokes making the lines suggests that the tool was held less obliquely, at times almost vertically. This is certainly the work of a third craftsman, whose technical skills differ from those of the master and his other assistant. The repoussé work of the crouching rams (cats. 13, 14) is also attributable to this craftsman. it is difficult to ascribe the elements of the yoke (Figures iii.38– iii.40), but intervention by the master must be ruled out. The warts are filled with concentric rings of dots instead of the scattered dots observed elsewhere. Here also the incisions are executed with tracing, punching, and chasing, but the tools were used in a slipshod fashion, especially the tracing tool, which was dragged across the bronze before being hammered. This feature, also evident in the feathers of the eagle head, is extremely awkward. The current lions may have replaced a previous pair of arms on the yoke, perhaps when a second team of horses replaced the first during the chariot’s long use prior to being buried (see cats. 2a, 16, and iii.d). if this was the case, the eagle head must have been retouched for reasons now unknown. in order to distinguish the workshop tradition of the master of the monteleone chariot, i investigated the tracing techniques on bronze objects found in italy, both locally made and imported and both contemporary with and earlier than the chariot. my findings revealed two different traditions. The first method uses a tracing tool with a hull-shaped point. The tool is held almost vertically and tapped continuously, producing lines consisting of a succession of strokes that are wider in the center and pointed at the ends and that occasionally overlap at the apexes (Figure iii.41). a skillful craftsman can execute the individual strokes so that the lines appear continuous and regular. Specially pointed tools were also used for the small circles, semicircles, and crescents articulating the spots in the fur of some of the mammals, the plumage of the birds, and the scales of the hybrid figures that populate archaic art. The curved points of these tracing tools are not sharp, but slightly dentate.
iii.20 iii.21 iii.22 iii.23 iii.24 iii.25 details of the toolmarks on the monteleone chariot: iii.20 on the hair of the charioteer on the proper left panel. iii.21 on the braid of the gorgoneion on the central panel. iii.22 on the breast of the woman on the central panel. iii.23 on the helmet crest on the proper right panel. iii.24 on the eyebrow of the lion head under the feet of the proper left kouros. iii.25 on the eye of the lion head under the feet of the proper left kouros iii.26 iii.27 iii.28 details of the toolmarks on the monteleone chariot: iii.26 on the border of the shield on the central panel. iii.27 on the sleeve of the woman on the central panel. iii.28 on the feathers of the bird on the proper right panel The Monteleone Chariot III: Construction and Decoration 53
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Page 10 and 11: i.2-i.4 The monteleone chariot afte
Page 12 and 13: i.5. diagram of the monteleone char
Page 14 and 15: i.7 The monteleone chariot after re
Page 16 and 17: 16 i.9 The site of monteleone di Sp
Page 18 and 19: i.10 Plan of the gravesite of the m
Page 20 and 21: i.18 Pieces of the chariot and othe
Page 22 and 23: 22 in that city he promptly cabled
Page 24 and 25: i.24 The monteleone chariot during
Page 26 and 27: 26 i.28 detail of the monteleone ch
Page 28 and 29: 28 among surviving works of ancient
Page 30 and 31: ii.2 The plaster cast used to encas
Page 32 and 33: 32 a b c ii.8 Bronze decoration on
Page 34 and 35: ii.11 Substructure of parade chario
Page 36 and 37: ii.15 reconstruction of the shock-a
Page 38 and 39: 38 century B.C. it seems that the s
Page 40 and 41: 40 inserted the tenons of a curved
Page 42 and 43: iii.3 The box of the monteleone cha
Page 44 and 45: iii.4 montage of photographs showin
Page 46 and 47: iii.6 diagrams of the central panel
Page 48 and 49: 48 fied the female figure as earth,
Page 50 and 51: 50 outside wheel of achilles’s ch
Page 54 and 55: iii.29 details of the toolmarks on
Page 56 and 57: iii.41 Toolmarks on the inner decor
Page 58 and 59: 58 attested from excavations) devel
Page 60 and 61: iii.43 aryballos in the form of an
Page 62 and 63: 62 that reached the metropolitan mu
Page 64 and 65: 64 6. The head of the eagle at the
Page 66 and 67: V.1 Central panel of the monteleone
Page 68 and 69: 68 V.4 Central panel, right profile
Page 70 and 71: V.8 Central panel, detail of the Bo
Page 72 and 73: V.11 Boar protome V.12 detail of th
Page 74 and 75: 74 V.19 Proper right tusk of the bo
Page 76 and 77: V.23 Proper right panel and related
Page 78 and 79: 78 V.26 edging of the proper right
Page 80 and 81: 80 V.30 Proper left panel and relat
Page 82 and 83: 82 V.33 edging of the proper left p
Page 84 and 85: V.37 right nailed boss, front V.38
Page 86 and 87: V.46 left lion head, front 86 V.47
Page 88 and 89: 88 V.52 Frieze on proper right side
Page 90 and 91: V.56 Frieze on proper left side, fr
Page 92 and 93: V.62 Bronze fragments as reconstruc
Page 94 and 95: V.65 eagle head from the end of the
Page 96 and 97: V.68 lion head from the proper left
Page 98 and 99: V.74 Proper left wheel V.75 X-ray o
Page 100 and 101: 100 V.77 location of ivory fragment
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102 for much of their length — an
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104 V.86 Fragment of ivory decorati
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108 aPPendiX: TranSCriPTion oF SiGn
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110 minuti dettagli sulla disposizi
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112 found in the nearby small valle
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114 14. emiliozzi 1992, p. 102, fig
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116 dall’uso [sic!] e sopravvive
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118 39. Serra ridgway 2001, p. 352.
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120 suggests that they were all mad
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122 reFerenCeS Åkerström, Åke 19
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124 1972 Buccheri a cilindretto di
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126 emiliozzi, adriana 1991 “il C
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128 laureti, Pasquale 1904 “la bi
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130 Welt, vol. 1, part 1, Von den A
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132 Bruwier, marie-Françoise Tilli
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