Abstract
The shape sameness, general structure of composition and separate elements of the construction, as well as several images and plots of the pectorals from the Tovsta Mohyla and Velyka Blyznytsia promoted for spreading the opinion about their manufacturing by the same master or by the toreuts from the same workshop. However more profound comparison of the two jewels allows making other conclusion. Both pectorals have different construction of twists and different system for promoting stiffness on the whole. The greater part of the animals depicted on the Taman pectoral are formed in the original grotesque stylistics, which is not peculiar to handiwork of the Bosporan toreuts. The images depicted on the both pectorals and the plots formed by them differ in semantics, and therefore differ in the jewels purpose of use. Hence, despite the physical resemblance, the pectorals were manufactured not only by different jewelers, but also by representatives of different workshops.
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