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| The jeweler’s art reached a high level of skill among the Etruscans and their successors, the Romans. The hair on each face bead of this gold necklace is ornamented by the “granulation” technique-- precisely arranging and fixing many tiny gold spheres onto a gold base. This process remained a mystery until just a few years ago, when jewelers succeeded in reconstructing it by studying museum collections, including those of The Field Museum. (Seventh-fifth century B.C.).
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