Machine generated contents note: Introduction to the Issue -- by G.R. Tsetskhladze -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Hammering Techniques in Archaic Greece -- Excursus 1. A Bronze Matrix from Corfu in the Ashmolean Museum -- Excursus 2. Matrices, Punches and Formers in the Archaic Toreutics of Lydia, North Ionia and the North Pontic Area -- Chapter 3. Hammering Techniques in the Classical Period -- Excursus 1. Hammering Techniques in Jewellery and Toreutics from the 7th-4th Century BC Scythian Barrows -- Excursus 2. A Matrix from Garchinovo -- Chapter 4. The Development of Hammering Techniques in the Hellenistic Period -- Excursus 1. Matrix from Berlin and Samnite Girdle from Reggio Calabria -- Excursus 2. A Circular Matrix from the Robinson Collection -- Excursus 3. An Early Ptolemaic Matrix with Achaemenid Motifs from the George Ortiz Collection -- Excursus 4. A Stone Matrix from Pantikapaion -- Excursus 5. The Galjfib Hoard -- Excursus 6. Matrices and Formers from the Tomb of a Jeweller in Heraklea -- Excursus 7. The Hoard of a Jeweller and Toreut from Illyria -- Chapter 5. The Development of Hammering Techniques in the First Centuries AD -- Excursus 1. A Bronze Matrix of the First Centuries AD in the George Ortiz Collection -- Excursus 2. A Bronze Matrix in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and the Genesis of 2nd-3rd Century AD Matrices in the Balkans -- Excursus 3. A Bronze Matrix from Chersonesos -- Excursus 4. Bronze Matrices in the Museums of Athens and Karlsruhe -- Conclusions -- Figures 1-133 -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Indices -- 1. Museums and Collections -- 2. Sites and Provenance.

Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 481-546).