From the front, the eye sockets reveal even more (photographs 3, 4, 5). Observe how tightly the amber fit into the recess made for it. There was only a thin line of silt left around the top edge of the socket, when the eyeball was removed. Actually, it wasn't removed. The dirt loosened from the handling of the piece allowed the eyeball to fall out quite easily, a fact that puzzled at the time as we expected to find some sort of mastic in the bottom of the recess that held the eyeball, however, there was none (photographs 4, S), all that was there was drifted silt in the proper left of the recess because the eyeball did not quite reach the bottom of its gold cave.

Photograph 4

Photograph 5

Partially cleaned the recess clearly showed two horizontal holes and two vertical holes (photograph 5), and we note the complete absence of mastic, or a stain to suggest where it had been in either eye socket; however, we do observe that the tour holes must have played a role somehow in holding the amber and turquoise eyeballs in, but what?

Focusing outside the sockets on the side of the forehead area, a partly cleaned view shows two distinct chasing tool marks one above the other (photographs 3, 6) ; these were driven very hard into the gold as if to clench the metal gather clown tightly.

When the face was cleaned of its dirt coat, immediately new details were visible (photograph 7). The recesses in the nose plate showed more of what can best be described as puckering and more than that the puckering had been clenched clown into place probably with a hammer driven chasing tool because flats show on top of the puckers where the metal was hit. (We are speaking here of their small handleless hammers usually made of magnetite which they commonly used along with a gold/copper alloy chasing tool of various shapes and sizes.)

Photograph 6

Photograph 7

In photograph 7, a light gray object can be seen protruding from the mouth. This is the substrate to which the fragments of the original tongue were to be attached. This was a piece of heavy acid-free board, that would take and hold a bend. There was no guesswork involved in putting the tongue back together this way as it clearly had been bent at an almost 90 degree angle and not bent on itself straight across, but at an angle (photographs 8, 9).