- Françoise Gaultier –
Figure 50.5 A bauletto earrings, gold, with granulation and other decoration. Second half of the sixth
century bc. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum nos. MS 3345A, B, C, image no. 234212.Figure 50.6 Disc-earrings, gold. Second half of the sixth century bc. Paris, Musée du Louvre,
Bj 45–46 © RMN (Musée du Louvre) Gérard Blot/Christian Jean.granules. A small rod, attached to the rear of the disc, passed through the ear lobe to keep
the earring in place.
Most necklaces preserved in museums are the result of more or less fanciful modern
remounting and some are outright pastiches. This is the case for the famous necklace with
scarabs from the Campana Collection (now in the Louvre), which served as a prototype for
numerous scarab necklaces that were made during the 1860s in Rome by the Castellani
goldsmith shop for a clientele that was spread across Europe and all the way to the United
States.^41 The few necklaces unearthed in recent excavations and reconstructed based on
the dimensions of the different components are all the more precious. This is particularly
true of the necklaces from Tomb II of Sodo Tumulus II near Cortona that furnish a good
example of the jewelry of the late Archaic period (480–460 bc). There are necklaces
some of which are composed of beads decorated in granulation and in fi ligree and
smooth beads separated from each other by separator rings, and others of openwork beads