Examples of metalwork

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Exports included cloth, olive oil, pottery and metalwork of various kinds.
All studies of the relationships between pieces of ornamental metalwork serve to emphasise the extent of the movement of people and, therefore, of contact.
The identification of apparent patterning amongst types and sub-groups of ornamental metalwork can easily induce a false sense of satisfaction.
One final example of material evidence that indicates social inequality is metalwork, especially that produced in precious metals.
The general impression is that, in these periods, the majority of the metalwork comes from wet contexts.
Judging from the archaeological evidence, prominent in which is high-quality metalwork, these appear to be places of exchange and consumption.
Other possibly important manufactures include faience, glass and metalwork, although the scale of local manufacture of the two last remains uncertain.
The vast majority of ornamental metalwork has only been studied from a typological standpoint on the basis of form and decoration.
The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books, not just a few pages.
Huge plants were opened in the zone, above all in the area beyond the railway tracks - chemical factories, soap factories and metalwork plants.
We do not necessarily think of pigments in the context of metalwork, but there are traditions of painted metal statues.
The majority of attempts to gain greater insight into the organisation of the manufacture of ornamental metalwork and the meaning of the decoration have been based on the decoration itself.
When so much decorated metalwork is associated with women it would be helpful to examine types connected with men, for instance weaponry, to redress the imbalance.
The identification of regions involved in the overseas trade is important for understanding the potential centres of production of home-produced goods, such as lavishly ornamented metalwork, the emergent political centres.
Another means by which light may be shed on the problems concerning the modes of production and dispersal of metalwork would be to consider very distinctive examples.
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