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Cluj-Napoca, 2017. Brand new copy. In English. Hard cover, 28 cm, 376 pp. ISBN:978-606-543-843-9."Toreutics, the art of metalworking, represents a research area which is increasingly attracting the attention of archaeologists. The toreutical products, especially those belonging to the fine arts, captured the interest of the ones fond of ancient culture ever since before the Renaissance. However, with the exception of the decorative, luxury vessels made of gold, silver, or even bronze, the scholarly interest on metal vessels had a slower start, and it got intensified only during the last century. The metal vessels, mainly those made of copper based alloy, did not come to the attention of the archaeologists before the 1900's. Generally, the archaeological literature refers to the fundamental works of Willers (1901, 1907), of the Scandinavian scholars, such as Ekholm, Norling-Christensen, Klindt-Jensen (3rd–4th decades of the century), of Radnóti (1937, 1938) and especially of Eggers (1951). I believe… Read More