The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Toreutics

the art of executing relief work on metal articles, mainly by embossing or chasing. Sometimes the term is used to denote the finishing of cast articles.

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Here are a continuation of an article on the Iron Age in the Mediterranean, contributions to the continuing Al Mina debate, a study of local schools in Thracian Toreutics of the fourth century BC in a broader context, and a chronology of cultural transformations in the basins of the Upper Dneiper and Western Dvina in the first to fifth centuries AD.

Ancient West & East; v.4 no.2

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