page_title: Etruscan jewelry
section_title: Archaic Era
hierarchical_section_title: Etruscan jewelry / Archaic Era
caption_attribution_description: English: Ear-stud decorated with a rosette surrounded by concentric bands. Gold with vitreous glass paste insets, Etruscan artwork, 530–480 BC. Français&#160;: Plaque de boucle d'oreille à décor de rosette entourée de cercles concentriques. Or et incrustations de pâte de verre, œuvre étrusque, 530-480 av. J.-C.
context_section_description: Among the jewelry found in tombs of the Archaic period were large disc earrings. The techniques here are difficult to define but they actually used granulation in concentric patterns. They also used filigree and glass paste. This was probably a trend of the time as they have been found in several tombs. The disc earring is originally a Lydian type of jewelry and became a fashionable trend during the archaic period with the strong East Greek influence spreading in the second half of the 6th century BCE.
  Valise-type earrings were mostly made in Vulci and were very widespread. The heavy pendants started becoming fashionable along with the Middle Eastern floral elements and all the other types of influence the Etruscans received from elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
  The fibulae became an item closer to jewelry in the archaic period. During the Villanovan era they were mainly bronze. Progressively though they turned into a subject of ornament.
caption: Ear-stud decorated with a rosette surrounded by concentric bands. Gold with vitreous glass paste insets, 530–480 BC. British Museum.
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